Quote by Maximilien Robespierre (1758-1794)

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

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

• Death is the beginning of immortality.

• Terror is nothing other than justice, prompt, severe, inflexible; it is therefore an emanation of virtue; it is not so much a special principle as it is a consequence of the general principle of democracy applied to our country's most urgent needs.

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

• The general will rules in society as the private will governs each separate individual.