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  • The aim of constitutional government is to preserve the Republic; that of revolutionary government is to lay its foundation.

    Maximilien Robespierre
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    Speech on Christmas in 1793. Quoted in "Who said Gaddafi had to go?" by Hugh Roberts, London Review of Books, Volume 33 No. 22, pp. 8-18, November 17, 2011.
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