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Crime butchers innocence to secure a throne, and innocence struggles with all its might against the attempts of crime.: Maximilien Robespierre (1758 - 1794)
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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)

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