Any law which violates the inalienable rights of man is essentially unjust and tyrannical; it is not a law at all.

Softness to traitors will destroy us all.

Peoples do not judge in the same way as courts of law; they do not hand down sentences, they throw thunderbolts; they do not condemn kings, they drop them back into the void; and this justice is worth just as much as that of the courts.

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.

Any institution which does not suppose the people good, and the magistrate corruptible, is evil.

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

Establish liberty on a rock of brass.