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

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

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

Omelets are not made without breaking eggs.

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

Food that is necessary for man’s existence is as sacred as life itself. Everything that is indispensable for its preservation is the common property of society as a whole. It is only the surplus that is private property and can be safely left to individual commercial enterprise.

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