The General Will Rules In Society As

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.

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!"

To Punish The Oppressors Of Humanity Is Clemency; To Forgive Them Is Cruelty.

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

Peoples Do Not Judge In The Same Way As Courts Of Law; They Do Not Hand Down Sentences, They Throw Thunderbolts; They Do Not Condemn Kings, They Drop Them Back Into The Void; And This Justice Is Worth Just As Much As That Of The Courts.