Softness To Traitors Will Destroy Us All.

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.

It Has Been Said That Terror Is The Principle Of Despotic Government. Does Your Government Therefore Resemble Despotism? Yes, As The Sword That Gleams In The Hands Of The Heroes Of Liberty Resembles That With Which The Henchmen Of Tyranny Are Armed ... The Government Of The Revolution Is Liberty's Despotism Against Tyranny.

Atheism Is Aristocratic; The Idea Of A Great Being That Watches Over Oppressed Innocence And Punishes Triumphant Crime Is Altogether Popular.

We Must Smother The Internal And External Enemies Of The Republic Or Perish With It; Now In This Situation, The First Maxim Of Your Policy Ought To Be To Lead The People By Reason And The People's Enemies By Terror.

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.