Terror is only justice: prompt, severe and inflexible; it is then an emanation of virtue; it is less … - Maximilien Robespierre

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I'm Beginning To Wonder If It Would Have Been Best Had The South Won The Civil War.

Maximilien Robespierre

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.

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The general will rules in society as the private will governs each separate individual.

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Terror is nothing else than justice, prompt, severe, inflexible.

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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.

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Establish liberty on a rock of brass.

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Death is not "an eternal sleep!" Citizens! efface from the tomb that motto, graven by sacrilegious hands, which spreads over all nature a funereal crape, takes from oppressed innocence its support, and affronts the beneficent dispensation of death! Inscribe rather thereon these words: "Death is the commencement of immortality!

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