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

The revolution is the war of liberty against its enemies. The constitution is the rule of liberty against its enemies. The constitution is the rule of liberty when victorious and peaceable.

When a Banker jumps out of a window, jump after him - that's where the money is.

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

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

Is it to be thought unreasonable that the people, in atonement for wrongs of a century, demand the vengeance of a single day?

Terror is nothing more than justice, prompt, secure and inflexible.