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

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

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

The king must die so that the country can live.

The revolutionary government owes to the good citizen all the protection of the nation; it owes nothing to the Enemies of the People but death.

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