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• One can...never create [freedom] by an invading force.
• You can't make an omelet without breaking a few eggs.
• The most extravagant idea that can be born in the head of a political thinker is to believe that it suffices for…
• The revolution is the war of liberty against its enemies. The constitution is the rule of liberty against its enemies. The constitution…
• Terror is only justice: prompt, severe and inflexible. It is then an emanation of virtue.
• Again, it may be said, that to love justice and equality the people need no great effort of virtue; it is sufficient…
• The general will rules in society as the private will governs each separate individual.
• Terror is nothing else than justice, prompt, severe, inflexible.
• Food that is necessary for man’s existence is as sacred as life itself. Everything that is indispensable for its preservation is the…
• By sealing our work with our blood, we may see at least the bright dawn of universal happiness.
• Softness to traitors will destroy us all.
• Any institution which does not suppose the people good, and the magistrate corruptible, is evil.

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