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Any law which violates the inalienable rights of man is essentially unjust and tyrannical; it is not a law at all.
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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.
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A good question is never answered. It is not a bolt to be tightened into place but a seed to be planted and to bear more seed toward the hope of greening the landscape of idea.
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Maximilien Robespierre
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Born:
May 6, 1758
Died:
July 28, 1794
(aged 36)
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