Maximilien Robespierre Quotes - Page 2

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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

  Country, Regret, Citizens

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• No one loves armed missionaries; the first lesson of nature and prudence is to repulse them as enemies.

  Maximilien Robespierre

  One Love

  "Sur la guerre". Speech to the Jacobin Club, January 02, 1792.

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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

  Ideas, Atheism, Watches

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• Crime butchers innocence to secure a throne, and innocence struggles with all its might against the attempts of crime.

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  War, Struggle, Thrones

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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

  People, Justice, Effort

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• The general will rules in society as the private will governs each separate individual.

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  Separation, Individual

  'Lettres á ses commettans' (2nd series) 5 January 1793; in A. Cobban 'Aspects of the French Revolution' (1968)

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• Terror is nothing else than justice, prompt, severe, inflexible.

  Maximilien Robespierre

  Justice, Terror, Prompts

  "The Bolshevik Revolution, 1917-1923, Vol. 1". Book by Edward Hallett Carr, p. 154, Speech to the National Convention, (February 5, 1794), 1951.

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• Establish liberty on a rock of brass.

  Maximilien Robespierre

  Rocks, Liberty, Brass

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• Terror is only justice: prompt, severe and inflexible. It is then an emanation of virtue.

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  Justice, Revolution, Virtue

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