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Quote by Maximilien Robespierre

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

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Maximilien Robespierre

Maximilien Robespierre was a French lawyer and revolutionary politician who played a significant role in the French Revolution. He is best known for his leadership of the Committee of Public Safety, which was responsible for the Reign of Terror. more

“lf the attribute of popular government in peace is virtue, the attribute of popular government in revolution is at one and the same time virtue and terror, virtue without which terror is fatal, terror without which virtue is impotent. The terror is nothing but justice, prompt, severe, inflexible; it is thus an emanation of virtue.”

Government Justice Virtue Revolution Terror Attributes Severe Prompts

Author:Maximilien Robespierre

“We must smother the internal and external enemies of the Republic or perish with it; now in this situation, the first maxim of your policy ought to be to lead the people by reason and the people's enemies by terror.”

People Firsts Reason Situation Enemy Policy Ought Terror Internals Republic Maxims

Author:Maximilien Robespierre

“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!"”

Hands Sleep Support Citizens Eternal Spread Innocence Immortality Oppressed Motto Tombs Commencement Sacrilegious

Author:Maximilien Robespierre

“Anybody who knows how to make a good movie, knows that it's a collaborative undertaking. To deny that its really dangerous.”

Knows Know How Dangerous Deny Undertakings Good Movie

Author:Claire Danes