Maximilien Robespierre

Leader

1758-05-06

Books by Maximilien Robespierre

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Crime butchers innocence to secure a throne, and innocence struggles with all its might against the attempts of crime.
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Pity is treason.
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Any law which violates the inalienable rights of man is essentially unjust and tyrannical; it is not a law at all.
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Atheism is aristocratic; the idea of a great Being that watches over oppressed innocence and punishes triumphant crime is altogether popular.
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The secret of freedom lies in educating people, whereas the secret of tyranny is in keeping them ignorant.
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