Maximilien Robespierre Quotes About Innocence

Quotes about: Innocence

• Crime butchers innocence to secure a throne, and innocence struggles with all its might against the attempts of crime.

  Maximilien Robespierre

  War, Struggle, Thrones

• Atheism is aristocratic; the idea of a great Being that watches over oppressed innocence and punishes triumphant crime is altogether popular.

  Maximilien Robespierre

  Ideas, Atheism, Watches

• Death is not "an eternal sleep!" Citizens! efface from the tomb that motto, graven by sacrilegious hands, which spreads over all nature a funereal crape, takes from oppressed innocence its support, and affronts the beneficent dispensation of death! Inscribe rather thereon these words: "Death is the commencement of immortality!"

  Maximilien Robespierre

  Sleep, Hands, Support

  Last speech to the National Convention, www.bartleby.com. July 26, 1794.

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