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Famous Quotes By Maximilien Robespierre

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Any law which violates the inalienable rights of man is essentially unjust and tyrannical; it is not a law at all. — Maximilien Robespierre

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A true revolutionary should be ready to perish in the process — Maximilien Robespierre

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Any institution which does not suppose the people good, and the magistrate corruptible, is evil. — Maximilien Robespierre

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By sealing our work with our blood, we may see at least the bright dawn of universal happiness. — Maximilien Robespierre

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Lf the attribute of popular government in peace is virtue, the attribute of popular government in revolution is at one and the same time virtue and terror, virtue without which terror is fatal, terror without which virtue is impotent. The terror is nothing but justice, prompt, severe, inflexible; it is thus an emanation of virtue. — Maximilien Robespierre

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It is with regret that I pronounce the fatal truth: Louis ought to perish rather than a hundred thousand virtuous citizens; Louis must die that the country may live — Maximilien Robespierre

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The revolution is the war of liberty against its enemies. The constitution is the rule of liberty against its enemies. The constitution is the rule of liberty when victorious and peaceable. — Maximilien Robespierre

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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

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Smuggle out the truth, pass it through all the obstacles that its enemies fabricate; multiply, spread by all means possible her message so that she may triumph; through zeal and civic action counterbalance the influence of money and the machinations lavished on the propagation of deception. That, in my opinion, is the most useful activity and the most sacred duty of pure patriotism. — Maximilien Robespierre

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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! — Maximilien Robespierre

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Food that is necessary for man's existence is as sacred as life itself. Everything that is indispensable for its preservation is the common property of society as a whole. It is only the surplus that is private property and can be safely left to individual commercial enterprise. — Maximilien Robespierre

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The aim of constitutional government is to preserve the Republic; that of revolutionary government is to lay its foundation. — Maximilien Robespierre

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One can ... never create [freedom] by an invading force. — Maximilien Robespierre

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Citizens, did you want a revolution without revolution? — Maximilien Robespierre

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Terror is nothing more than justice, prompt, secure and inflexible. — Maximilien Robespierre

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When a Banker jumps out of a window, jump after him - that's where the money is. — Maximilien Robespierre

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Is it to be thought unreasonable that the people, in atonement for wrongs of a century, demand the vengeance of a single day? — Maximilien Robespierre

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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. — Maximilien Robespierre

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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. — Maximilien Robespierre

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We must smother the internal and external enemies of the Republic or perish with it; now in this situation, the first maxim of your policy ought to be to lead the people by reason and the people's enemies by terror. — Maximilien Robespierre

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Omelets are not made without breaking eggs. — Maximilien Robespierre

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No one loves armed missionaries. — Maximilien Robespierre

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Pity is treason. — Maximilien Robespierre

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Softness to traitors will destroy us all. — Maximilien Robespierre

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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. — Maximilien Robespierre

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Establish liberty on a rock of brass. — Maximilien Robespierre

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Atheism is aristocratic; the idea of a great Being that watches over oppressed innocence and punishes triumphant crime is altogether popular. — Maximilien Robespierre