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A true revolutionary should be ready to perish in the process
— Maximilien Robespierre
Establish liberty on a rock of brass.
— Maximilien Robespierre
Robespierre, this pedant of freedom!
— Franz Grillparzer
No one loves armed missionaries.
— Maximilien Robespierre
I have left my balls to Robespierre and my legs to Couthon. That should help the Committee of Public Safety for a while.
— Georges Danton
Robespierre, however, was not the type of leader finally destined to emerge from the Revolution.
— Irving Babbitt
Terror is nothing more than justice, prompt, secure and inflexible.
— Maximilien Robespierre
The king must die so that the country can live.
— Maximilien De Robespierre
The aim of constitutional government is to preserve the Republic; that of revolutionary government is to lay its foundation.
— Maximilien Robespierre
The neoconservative pseudo-conservatives speak like Tocqueville but act like Robespierre.
— Ilana Mercer
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.
— Maximilien De Robespierre
And what did it matter that Brutus had killed a tyrant? Tyranny still existed in every heart and Rome only existed in Brutus.
— Robespierre
Pity is treason.
— Maximilien Robespierre
Terror is nothing else than justice, prompt, severe, inflexible.
— Maximilien De Robespierre
And Robespierre, the Incorruptible, who loved us so much he cut off our heads so we would not be troubled by too many thoughts.
— Jennifer Donnelly
Omelets are not made without breaking eggs.
— Maximilien Robespierre
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— Maximilien De Robespierre
When a Banker jumps out of a window, jump after him - that's where the money is.
— Maximilien Robespierre
Crime butchers innocence to secure a throne, and innocence struggles with all its might against the attempts of crime.
— Maximilien Robespierre
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
Any law which violates the inalienable rights of man is essentially unjust and tyrannical; it is not a law at all.
— Maximilien Robespierre
Atheism is aristocratic; the idea of a great Being that watches over oppressed innocence and punishes triumphant crime is altogether popular.
— Maximilien Robespierre
Softness to traitors will destroy us all.
— Maximilien Robespierre
People said - though this felt like a heresy - that they had seen Camille make Robespierre laugh.
— Hilary Mantel
One can ... never create [freedom] by an invading force.
— Maximilien Robespierre
The secret of freedom lies in educating people, whereas the secret of tyranny is in keeping them ignorant.
— Maximilien De Robespierre
Any institution which does not suppose the people good, and the magistrate corruptible, is evil.
— Maximilien Robespierre
By sealing our work with our blood, we may see at least the bright dawn of universal happiness.
— Maximilien Robespierre
Citizens, did you want a revolution without revolution?
— Maximilien Robespierre
You [Robespierre] will follow us soon. Your house will be beaten down and salt sown in the place where it stood.
— Georges Danton
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
To punish the oppressors of humanity is clemency; to forgive them is cruelty.
— Maximilien De Robespierre
The general will rules in society as the private will governs each separate individual.
— Maximilien De Robespierre