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
believe hands law
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.
evil people doe
Any institution which does not suppose the people good, and the magistrate corruptible, is evil.
country evil justice
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.
freedom men law
Any law which violates the inalienable rights of man is essentially unjust and tyrannical; it is not a law at all.
humanity forgiving clemency
To punish the oppressors of humanity is clemency; to forgive them is cruelty.
lying tyrants people
The secret of freedom lies in educating people, whereas the secret of tyranny is in keeping them ignorant.