Maximilien Robespierre - Revolution Quotes

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

Maximilien Robespierre

Citizens, did you want a revolution without revolution?

Maximilien Robespierre

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.

Maximilien Robespierre

Citizens, would you want a revolution without revolution?

Maximilien Robespierre

Our revolution has made me feel the full force of the axiom that history is fiction and I am convinced that chance and intrigue have produced more heroes than genius and virtue.

Maximilien Robespierre