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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.” quote by Maximilien Robespierre — Download Open image

“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.”

Maximilien Robespierre

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Terror is only justice: prompt, severe and inflexible. It is then an emanation of virtue.

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To punish the oppressors of humanity is clemency; to forgive them is cruelty.

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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…

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

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Establish liberty on a rock of brass.

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Pity is treason.

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The aim of constitutional government is to preserve the Republic; that of revolutionary government is to lay its foundation.

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