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Citizens, did you want a revolution without revolution?: Maximilien Robespierre (1758 - 1794), Réponse à J.- B. Louvet, Speech to National Convention, 1792
Any institution which does not suppose the people good, and the magistrate corruptible, is evil.: Maximilien Robespierre (1758 - 1794), Déclaration des droits de l'homme et du citoyen, 1793
Terror is nothing other than justice, prompt, severe, inflexible; it is therefore an emanation of virtue; it is not so much a special principle as it is a consequence of the general principle of democracy applied to our country's most urgent needs.: Maximilien Robespierre (1758 - 1794), Sur les principes de morale politique
The government in a revolution is the despotism of liberty against tyranny: Maximilien Robespierre (1758 - 1794)
Death is the beginning of immortality.: Maximilien Robespierre (1758 - 1794)
The general will rules in society as the private will governs each separate individual.: Maximilien Robespierre (1758 - 1794)
Atheism is aristocratic; the idea of a great Being that watches over oppressed innocence and punishes triumphant crime is altogether popular.: Maximilien Robespierre (1758 - 1794)
Any law which violates the inalienable rights of man is essentially unjust and tyrannical; it is not a law at all.: Maximilien Robespierre (1758 - 1794)
To punish the oppressors of humanity is clemency; to forgive them is cruelty.: Maximilien Robespierre (1758 - 1794)
What is the end of our revolution? The tranquil enjoyment of liberty and equality; the reign of that eternal justice, the laws of which are graven, not on marble or stone, but in the hearts of men, even in the heart of the slave who has forgotten them, and in that of the tyrant who disowns them.: Maximilien Robespierre (1758 - 1794)

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