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

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.

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

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

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

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; it is less a distinct principle than a natural consequence of the general principle of democracy, applied to the most pressing wants of the country.