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

It is with regret that I pronounce the fatal truth: Louis ought to perish rather than a hundred thousand virtuous citizens; Louis must die that the country may live

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

Any institution which does not suppose the people good, and the magistrate corruptible, is evil.

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

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

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