Quotes by : Maximilien de Robespierre

Peoples do not judge in the same way as courts of law; they do not hand down sentences, they throw thunderbolts;....

They call me a tyrant . . . One arrives at a tyrant's throne by the help of scoundrels . . . What faction....

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

. . . Kings, aristocrats, tyrants, whoever they be, are slaves rebelling against the sovereign of the....

Who then shall unravel all these subtle combinations? Who shall trace the exact dividing line that marks....

A sensibility that wails almost exclusively over the enemies of liberty seems suspect to me. Stop shaking....