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

By sealing our work with our blood, we may see at least the bright dawn of universal happiness.

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

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

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.

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

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.