Maximilien Robespierre Quotes About Revolution

Quotes about: Revolution

• It has been said that terror is the principle of despotic government. Does your government therefore resemble despotism? Yes, as the sword that gleams in the hands of the heroes of liberty resembles that with which the henchmen of tyranny are armed ... The government of the revolution is liberty's despotism against tyranny.

  Maximilien Robespierre

  Hero, Government, Hands

  "Political Scientism - Beware the Enlightened Ones" by Robin Koerner, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 2, 2017.

• Citizens, did you want a revolution without revolution?

  Maximilien Robespierre

  Citizens, Want, Revolution

  Maximilien Robespierre (2007). “Virtue and Terror”, New Left Books

• 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

• lf 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

  Government, Justice, Revolution

  Speech to the National Convention on February 05, 1794. "The Bolshevik Revolution, 1917-1923." Book by Edward Hallett Carr, Volume 1, p. 154, 1951.

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