It Is With Regret That I Pronounce

Softness To Traitors Will Destroy Us All.

The Secret Of Freedom Lies In Educating People, Whereas The Secret Of Tyranny Is In Keeping Them Ignorant.

The Aim Of Constitutional Government Is To Preserve The Republic; That Of Revolutionary Government Is To Lay Its Foundation.

Formerly, When A King Died At Versailles The Reign Of His Successor Was Immediately Announced By The Cry: "the King Is Dead, Long Live The King", In Order To Make It Understood That Despotism Is Immortal! Now An Entire People, Moved By A Sublime Instinct, Cried: Long Live The Republic! To Teach The Universe That Tyranny Died With The Tyrant.

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