Maximilien Robespierre Quotes About French Revolution

Quotes about: French Revolution

• The secret of freedom lies in educating people, whereas the secret of tyranny is in keeping them ignorant.

  Maximilien Robespierre

  Lying, Tyrants, People

  "Oeuvres". Volume 2, p. 253, 1840.

• Any institution which does not suppose the people good, and the magistrate corruptible, is evil.

  Maximilien Robespierre

  Umpires, People, Evil

  'Dèclaration des droits de l'homme' 24 April 1793, article 25

• Terror is only justice: prompt, severe and inflexible. It is then an emanation of virtue.

  Maximilien Robespierre

  Justice, Revolution, Virtue

• The revolution is the war of liberty against its enemies. The constitution is the rule of liberty against its enemies. The constitution is the rule of liberty when victorious and peaceable.

  Maximilien Robespierre

  War, Enemy, Liberty

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