One Can...never Create [freedom] By An Invading

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.

Terror Is Only Justice: Prompt, Severe And Inflexible; It Is Then An Emanation Of Virtue; It Is Less A Distinct Principle Than A Natural Consequence Of The General Principle Of Democracy, Applied To The Most Pressing Wants Of The Country.

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.

One Can...never Create [freedom] By An Invading Force.

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