The king must die so that the country can live.

The king must die so that the country can live.

Any law which violates the inalienable rights of man is essentially unjust and tyrannical; it is not a law at all.

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

No one loves armed missionaries; the first lesson of nature and prudence is to repulse them as enemies.

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

Peoples do not judge in the same way as courts of law; they do not hand down sentences, they throw thunderbolts; they do not condemn kings, they drop them back into the void; and this justice is worth just as much as that of the courts.