“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” MayCountryDiesRegretOughtCitizensThousandHundredVirtuous Author:Maximilien Robespierre
“Citizens, did you want a revolution without revolution?” WantRevolutionCitizens Book:Virtue and Terror Source: Virtue and Terror
“Death is not "an eternal sleep!" Citizens! efface from the tomb that motto, graven by sacrilegious hands, which spreads over all nature a funereal crape, takes from oppressed innocence its support, and affronts the beneficent dispensation of death! Inscribe rather thereon these words: "Death is the commencement of immortality!"” HandsSleepSupportCitizensEternalSpreadInnocenceImmortalityOppressedMottoTombsCommencementSacrilegious Author:Maximilien Robespierre
