Maximilien Robespierre quotes

" Pity is treason. " # Pity # Laughter # Treason

" Is it to be thought unreasonable that the people, in atonement for wrongs of a century, demand the vengeance of a single day? " # Vengeance # Change # Death and Dying

" The most extravagant idea that can be born in the head of a political thinker is to believe that it suffices for people to enter, weapons in hand, among a foreign people and expect to have its laws and constitution embraced. No one loves armed missionaries; the first lesson of nature and prudence is to repulse them as enemies. " # Politicians and Politics # Love # Law and Lawyers

" Citizens, did you want a revolution without revolution? " # Revolutions and Revolutionaries

" It is with regret that I pronounce the fatal truth: Louis must die that the country may live. " # Power # Regret # Life and Living

" Our revolution has made me feel the full force of the axiom that history is fiction and I am convinced that chance and intrigue have produced more heroes than genius and virtue. " # Heroes and Heroism # Revolutions and Revolutionaries # Genius

" Any institution which does not suppose the people good, and the magistrate corruptible, is evil. " # Government # Evil # Marriage

" Terror is nothing other than justice, prompt, severe, inflexible; it is therefore an emanation of virtue; it is not so much a special principle as it is a consequence of the general principle of democracy applied to our country's most urgent needs. " # Democracy # Justice # Virtue

" The government in a revolution is the despotism of liberty against tyranny. " # Revolutions and Revolutionaries # Liberty # Despotism

" By sealing our work with our blood, we may see at least the bright dawn of universal happiness. " # Happiness # Work # Writers and Writing