“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
“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.” WayHandsLawJusticeJudgingKingsCourtSentencesVoidThunderboltsDo Not Judge Book:Virtue and Terror Source: Virtue and Terror
“It has been said that terror is the principle of despotic government. Does your government therefore resemble despotism? Yes, as the sword that gleams in the hands of the heroes of liberty resembles that with which the henchmen of tyranny are armed ... The government of the revolution is liberty's despotism against tyranny.” DoeHas BeensMadeSaidHandsGovernmentForceLibertyPrinciplesCrimeRevolutionHeroProtectTerrorTyrannyDespotismGleamHenchmen Author:Maximilien Robespierre
“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.” PeopleFirstsBelieveIdeasHandsLawPoliticalBornEnemyLessonsWeaponsConstitutionThinkerOne LovePrudenceExtravagantReign Of Terror Author:Maximilien Robespierre
