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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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The secret of freedom lies in educating people, whereas the secret of tyranny is in keeping them ignorant.

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

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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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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.

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Peoples do not judge in the same way as courts of law; they do not hand down sentences, they throw thunderbolts; they do not condemn kings, they drop them back into the void; and this justice is worth just as much as that of the courts.

Maximilien de Robespierre
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A sensibility that wails almost exclusively over the enemies of liberty seems suspect to me. Stop shaking the tyrant's bloody robe in my face, or I will believe that you wish to put Rome in chains.

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They call me a tyrant . . . One arrives at a tyrant's throne by the help of scoundrels . . . What faction do I belong to? You yourselves. What is that faction which, since the Revolution began, has crushed the factions and swept away hireling traitors? It is you, it is the people, it is the principles of the Revolution.

Maximilien de Robespierre, Robespierre
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Who then shall unravel all these subtle combinations? Who shall trace the exact dividing line that marks off one form of extremism from its opposite? It can be done only by a love of country and a love of truth. Kings and knaves will always try to destroy this love, for they shun reason and truth like the p

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To punish the oppressors of humanity is clemency

to forgive them is cruelty.
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