47 Quotes by Maximilien Robespierre

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

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

Again, it may be said, that to love justice and equality the people need no great effort of virtue; it is sufficient that they love themselves.

To punish the oppressors of humanity is clemency; to forgive them is cruelty.

Terror is only justice: prompt, severe and inflexible; it is then an emanation of virtue; it is less a distinct principle than a natural consequence of the general principle of democracy, applied to the most pressing wants of the country.

The king must die so that the country can live.

You can't make an omelet without breaking a few eggs.

Establish liberty on a rock of brass.

Is it to be thought unreasonable that the people, in atonement for wrongs of a century, demand the vengeance of a single day?