Robespierres Reign Quotes & Sayings

The people are the ultimate guardians of their own liberties. In every government on earth is some trace of human weakness, some germ of corruption and degeneracy ... Every government degenerates when trusted to the rulers of the people alone. — Thomas Jefferson

I have found that the greatest stories of acceptance and love and the ugliest stories of hideous cruelty and abuse have equally been perpetrated in the name of Christian faith. — Andrew Solomon

Once, somebody asked Robert Schumann to explain the meaning of a certain piece of music he had just played on the piano.
What Robert Schumann did was sit back down at the piano and play the piece of music again. — David Markson

The surfer screamed something about bad mushrooms and paddled away from us as fast as he could. — Rick Riordan

She would never cry where her tears might be seen and counted against her. — Daniel Woodrell