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Maximilien Robespierre

It has been said that terror is the principle of despotic government. Does your government therefore resemble despotism? Yes, as the sword that gleams in the hands of the heroes of liberty resembles that with which the henchmen of tyranny are armed ... The government of the revolution is liberty's despotism against tyranny. Is force made only to protect crime

Maximilien Robespierre

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Maximilien Robespierre

A sensibility that wails almost exclusively over the enemies of liberty seems suspect to me. Stop shaking the tyrant's bloody robe in my face, or I will believe that you wish to put Rome in chains.

Maximilien Robespierre

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Maximilien Robespierre

A true revolutionary should be ready to perish in the process

Maximilien Robespierre

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Maximilien Robespierre

The king must die so that the country can live.

Maximilien Robespierre

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Maximilien Robespierre

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.

Maximilien Robespierre

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Maximilien Robespierre

To punish the oppressors of humanity is clemency; to forgive them is cruelty.

Maximilien Robespierre

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Maximilien Robespierre

The secret of freedom lies in educating people, whereas the secret of tyranny is in keeping them ignorant.

Maximilien Robespierre