The general will rules in society as the private will governs each separate individual.

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

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

Atheism is aristocratic; the idea of a great Being that watches over oppressed innocence and punishes triumphant crime is altogether popular.

It has been said that terror is the principle of despotic government. Does your government therefore resemble despotism? Yes, as the sword that gleams in the hands of the heroes of liberty resembles that with which the henchmen of tyranny are armed ... The government of the revolution is liberty's despotism against tyranny.

The general will rules in society as the private will governs each separate individual.

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