“Formerly, when a king died at Versailles the reign of his successor was immediately announced by the cry: "The king is dead, long live the king", in order to make it understood that despotism is immortal! Now an entire people, moved by a sublime instinct, cried: Long live the Republic! to teach the universe that tyranny died with the tyrant.” PeopleLongOrderUniverseTeachCryKingsUnderstoodDiedMovedInstinctTyrannyImmortalRepublicTyrantsCriedReignSublimeDespotismSuccessorsVersailles 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
