More from Maximilien Robespierre

  1. Death is the beginning of immortality.
  2. When work is a pleasure, life is a joy! When work is a duty, life is slavery.
  3. 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 …
  4. Is it to be thought unreasonable that the people, in atonement for wrongs of a century, demand the vengeance of a single day?
  5. By sealing our work with our blood, we may see at least the bright dawn of universal happiness.
  6. The general will rules in society as the private will governs each separate individual.
  7. The government in a revolution is the despotism of liberty against tyranny.
  8. A nation is truly corrupt, when, after having by degrees lost its character and liberty, it slides from democracy into aristocracy or monar…

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