Any institution which does not suppose the people good, and the magistrate corruptible, is evil.
Maximilien RobespierreThe general will rules in society as the private will governs each separate individual.
Maximilien RobespierreTerror is only justice: prompt, severe and inflexible. It is then an emanation of virtue.
Maximilien RobespierreThe 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.
Maximilien Robespierre