6 Maximilien Robespierre Quotes on Revolution

Maximilien Robespierre quotes on revolution

2. Citizens, did you want a revolution without revolution?

3. It is with regret that I pronounce the fatal truth: Louis must die that the country may live.

7. The government in a revolution is the despotism of liberty against tyranny.

9. 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.

20. In the system of the French revolution that which is immoral is impolitic, and what tends to corrupt is counter-revolutionary. Weaknesses, vices, prejudices are the road to monarchy.

24. What is the end of our revolution? The tranquil enjoyment of liberty and equality; the reign of that eternal justice, the laws of which are graven, not on marble or stone, but in the hearts of men, even in the heart of the slave who has forgotten them, and in that of the tyrant who disowns them.