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
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.
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.
freedom men law
Any law which violates the inalienable rights of man is essentially unjust and tyrannical; it is not a law at all.
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
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.