Formerly, when a king died at Versailles the reign of his successor was immediately announced by the cry: "The king is dead, long live the king", in order to make it understood that despotism is immortal! Now an entire people, moved by a sublime instinct, cried: Long live the Republic! to teach the universe that tyranny died with the tyrant.
Maximilien RobespierreNo one loves armed missionaries; the first lesson of nature and prudence is to repulse them as enemies.
Maximilien RobespierreTerror is only justice: prompt, severe and inflexible. It is then an emanation of virtue.
Maximilien Robespierre