Maximilien de Robespierre

Quotes

• “Who then shall unravel all these subtle combinations? Who shall trace the exact dividing line that marks off one form of...”
• “Peoples do not judge in the same way as courts of law; they do not hand down sentences, they throw thunderbolts; they do...”
• “A sensibility that wails almost exclusively over the enemies of liberty seems suspect to me. Stop shaking the tyrant's b...”
• “. . . Kings, aristocrats, tyrants, whoever they be, are slaves rebelling against the sovereign of the earth, which is th...”