Attributes Quote by Maximilien Robespierre

It is certainly true that a popular government cannot flourish without virtue in the people.

— Richard Henry Lee

Not contentment, but more power; not peace at any price, but war; not virtue, but efficiency (virtue in the Renaissance sense, virtu , virtue…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

The eyes of mankind will be upon you to see whether the Government, which is now more popular than it has been for many…

— Samuel Adams

'Tis substantially true, that virtue or morality is a necessary spring of popular government. The rule indeed extends with more or less force to…

— George Washington

Peace is not the absence of war, but a virtue based on strength of character.

— Baruch Spinoza

The object of government in peace and in war is not the glory of rulers or of races, but the happiness of the common…

— William Beveridge

Public virtue cannot exist in a nation without private, and public virtue is the only foundation of republics. There must be a positive passion…

— John Adams

Good government is the outcome of private virtue.

— John Jay Chapman

It has been said that terror is the principle of despotic government. Does your government therefore resemble despotism? Yes, as the sword that gleams…

— Maximilien Robespierre

It has been said that terror is the principle of despotic government. Does your government therefore resemble despotism? Yes, as the sword that gleams…

— Maximilien Robespierre

Someone once said that every form of government has one characteristic peculiar to it and if that characteristic is lost, the government will fall.…

— Ronald Reagan

No government can be long secure without a formidable opposition. It reduces their supporters to that tractable number which can be managed by the…

— Benjamin Disraeli