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Maximilien Robespierre

Maximilien François Marie Isidore de Robespierre (French: [mak.si.mi.ljɛ̃ fʁɑ̃.swa ma.ʁi i.zi.dɔʁ də ʁɔ.bɛs.pjɛʁ]; 6 May 1758 – 28 July 1794) was a French lawyer and politician, as well as one of the best known and most influential figures associated with the French Revolution and the Reign of Terror.

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

Inflexible, Justice, Prompt, Revolution, Severe, Virtue

The aim of constitutional government is to preserve the Republic; that of revolutionary government is to lay its foundation.

Foundation, Government, Preserve, Republic, Revolutionary

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.

Fatal, Government, Justice, Revolution, Severe

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

Inflexible, Justice, Secure, Terror

Smuggle out the truth, pass it through all the obstacles that its enemies fabricate; multiply, spread by all means possible her message so that she may triumph; through zeal and civic action counterbalance the influence of money and the machinations lavished on the propagation of deception. That, in my opinion, is the most useful activity and the most sacred duty of pure patriotism.

Activity, Deception, Enemy, Mean, Spread, Triumph

One can. . . never create [freedom] by an invading force.

Create, Force, Freedom, Peace, War

Softness to traitors will destroy us all.

Destroy, Softness, Traitor, Traitors

Omelets are not made without breaking eggs.

Breaking, Breaking Eggs, Eggs, Made, Omelets

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.

Condemn, Hand, Hands, Kings, Law, Way

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

Evil, Good, Magistrate, People, Suppose, Umpires

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.

Country, Evil, Inflexible, Justice, Pressing, Principle

The king must die so that the country can live.

Country, Die, Dies, King, Kings

When a Banker jumps out of a window, jump after him - that's where the money is.

Banker, Bankers, Jumps, Money, Window

Citizens, did you want a revolution without revolution?

Citizens, Revolution, Want

The most extravagant idea that can be born in the head of a political thinker is to believe that it suffices for people to enter, weapons in hand, among a foreign people and expect to have its laws and constitution embraced. No one loves armed missionaries; the first lesson of nature and prudence is to repulse them as enemies.

Believe, Hands, Head, Law, Laws, Prudence

We must smother the internal and external enemies of the Republic or perish with it; now in this situation, the first maxim of your policy ought to be to lead the people by reason and the people's enemies by terror.

Enemy, People, Perish, Policy, Republic

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

Clemency, Forgiving, Humanity, Oppressors

Again, it may be said, that to love justice and equality the people need no great effort of virtue; it is sufficient that they love themselves.

Effort, Justice, Love, People, Said, Sufficient

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

Blood, Dawn, Happiness, May, Sealing, Universal

No one loves armed missionaries.

Armed, Loves, Missionaries, One Love

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