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The government in a revolution is the despotism of liberty against tyranny.
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Avoid the ancient insanity of governments: the mania of wishing to govern too much.
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The aim of constitutional government is to preserve the Republic; that of revolutionary government is to lay its foundation.
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If 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.
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Wars and elections are both too big and too small to matter in the long run. The daily work—that goes on, it adds up.
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Born:
May 6, 1758
Died:
July 28, 1794
(aged 36)
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