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

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.

Establish liberty on a rock of brass.

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.

One can...never create [freedom] by an invading force.

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

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