Maximilien Robespierre
Maximilien Robespierre
Maximilien François Marie Isidore de Robespierrewas a French lawyer and politician, and one of the best-known and most influential figures of the French Revolution, the defence of the Republic, and the Reign of Terror...
NationalityFrench
ProfessionLeader
Date of Birth6 May 1758
CountryFrance
humanity forgiving clemency
To punish the oppressors of humanity is clemency; to forgive them is cruelty.
freedom men law
Any law which violates the inalienable rights of man is essentially unjust and tyrannical; it is not a law at all.
hero government hands
It has been said that terror is the principle of despotic government. Does your government therefore resemble despotism? Yes, as the sword that gleams in the hands of the heroes of liberty resembles that with which the henchmen of tyranny are armed ... The government of the revolution is liberty's despotism against tyranny. Is force made only to protect crime
government republic foundation
The aim of constitutional government is to preserve the Republic; that of revolutionary government is to lay its foundation.
bankers window
When a Banker jumps out of a window, jump after him - that's where the money is.
kings hands law
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.
kings order tyrants
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.
justice terror secure
Terror is nothing more than justice, prompt, secure and inflexible.
traitor softness
Softness to traitors will destroy us all.
government justice revolution
lf the attribute of popular government in peace is virtue, the attribute of popular government in revolution is at one and the same time virtue and terror, virtue without which terror is fatal, terror without which virtue is impotent. The terror is nothing but justice, prompt, severe, inflexible; it is thus an emanation of virtue.
justice terror severe
Terror is nothing else than justice, prompt, severe, inflexible.
one-love
No one loves armed missionaries.
revenge people demand
Is it to be thought unreasonable that the people, in atonement for wrongs of a century, demand the vengeance of a single day?
rocks liberty brass
Establish liberty on a rock of brass.