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
mean enemy deception
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.
people enemy republic
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.
war enemy liberty
The revolution is the war of liberty against its enemies. The constitution is the rule of liberty against its enemies. The constitution is the rule of liberty when victorious and peaceable.
eggs clue breaking-eggs
You can't make an omelet without breaking a few eggs.
rocks liberty brass
Establish liberty on a rock of brass.
justice people effort
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.
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?
separation individual
The general will rules in society as the private will governs each separate individual.
one-love
No one loves armed missionaries.
justice terror severe
Terror is nothing else than justice, prompt, severe, inflexible.
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.
eggs breaking-eggs made
Omelets are not made without breaking eggs.
country regret citizens
It is with regret that I pronounce the fatal truth: Louis ought to perish rather than a hundred thousand virtuous citizens; Louis must die that the country may live
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.