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

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.

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

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

Omelets are not made without breaking eggs.

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

Crime butchers innocence to secure a throne, and innocence struggles with all its might against the attempts of crime.