Maximilien Robespierre Quotes

Terror Is Nothing Else Than Justice, Prompt, Severe, Inflexible.

Establish Liberty On A Rock Of Brass.

Death Is Not "an Eternal Sleep!" Citizens! Efface From The Tomb That Motto, Graven By Sacrilegious Hands, Which Spreads Over All Nature A Funereal Crape, Takes From Oppressed Innocence Its Support, And Affronts The Beneficent Dispensation Of Death! Inscribe Rather Thereon These Words: "death Is The Commencement Of Immortality!"

Again, It May Be Said, That To Love Justice And Equality The People Need No Great Effort Of Virtue; It Is Sufficient That They Love Themselves.

Is It To Be Thought Unreasonable That The People, In Atonement For Wrongs Of A Century, Demand The Vengeance Of A Single Day?

Crime Butchers Innocence To Secure A Throne, And Innocence Struggles With All Its Might Against The Attempts Of Crime.

Atheism Is Aristocratic; The Idea Of A Great Being That Watches Over Oppressed Innocence And Punishes Triumphant Crime Is Altogether Popular.

The General Will Rules In Society As The Private Will Governs Each Separate Individual.

No One Loves Armed Missionaries; The First Lesson Of Nature And Prudence Is To Repulse Them As Enemies.

Terror Is Only Justice: Prompt, Severe And Inflexible. It Is Then An Emanation Of Virtue.

Lf The Attribute Of Popular Government In Peace Is Virtue, The Attribute Of Popular Government In Revolution Is At One And The Same Time Virtue And Terror, Virtue Without Which Terror Is Fatal, Terror Without Which Virtue Is Impotent. The Terror Is Nothing But Justice, Prompt, Severe, Inflexible; It Is Thus An Emanation Of Virtue.

It Is With Regret That I Pronounce The Fatal Truth: Louis Ought To Perish Rather Than A Hundred Thousand Virtuous Citizens; Louis Must Die That The Country May Live