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Here are the best Maximilien Robespierre quotes.

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

- Maximilien Robespierre.

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

- Maximilien Robespierre.

3. "One could say that the two contrary geniuses that have been depicted here battling for control of the realm of nature, are fighting in this great epoch of human history, to shape irrevocably the destiny of the world."

- Maximilien Robespierre.

4. "France is the theater of this redoubtable contest."

- Maximilien Robespierre.

5. "Our strength gives us the ascendancy of the truth over deception, and the rights of public interest over private interest."

- Maximilien Robespierre.

6. "Our weakness rallies against us all the vicious men, all those who in their hearts plot to despoil the people."

- Maximilien Robespierre.

7. "The goal of constitutional government is to maintain the Republic; that of revolutionary government is to found it."

- Maximilien Robespierre.

8. "The National Convention is installed on the basis of a democratic franchise. Its first action was to declare France a Republic."

- Maximilien Robespierre.

9. "Everyone seems to agree that there is in France a powerful faction which directs the maneuverings of the executive power with the objective of reviving ministerial influence at the expense of national sovereignty."

- Maximilien Robespierre.

10. "It was necessary to examine scrupulously, determine the motives behind it, foresee its consequences, take stock of oneself, and adopt the measures."

- Maximilien Robespierre.

11. "Why be afraid even to touch so many powerful enemies, who must be unmasked and defeated? Why preach confidence when it is out of the question? I too demand war; but I will tell how and on whom it must be waged."

- Maximilien Robespierre.

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12. "The most extravagant idea that can be born in the head of a political thinker is to believe that it suffices for people to enter, weapons in hand, among a foreign people and expect to have its laws and constitution embraced. No one loves armed missionaries; the first lesson of nature and prudence is to repulse them as enemies."

- Maximilien Robespierre.

13. "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 ."

- Maximilien Robespierre.

14. "The revolution is the war of liberty against its enemies. The constitution is the rule of liberty against its enemies. The constitution is the rule of liberty when victorious and peaceable."

- Maximilien Robespierre.

15. "The king must die so that the country can live."

- Maximilien Robespierre.

16. "This great purity of the bases of the French Revolution, the very sublimity of its object is precisely what makes our strength and our weakness."

- Maximilien Robespierre.

17. "Terror is less a distinct principle than a natural consequence of the general principle of democracy, applied to the most pressing wants of the country."

- Maximilien Robespierre.

18. "If the attribute of popular government in peace is virtue, the attribute of popular government in revolution is at one and the same time virtue and terror, virtue without which terror is fatal, terror without which virtue is impotent."

- Maximilien Robespierre.

19. "Terror is only justice: prompt, severe, inflexible; it is, therefore, an emanation of virtue."

- Maximilien Robespierre.

20. "Terror is nothing but a principle of despotic government."

- Maximilien Robespierre.

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according to romans 13: 1-7, 1st peter 2: 12-14, and 1 timothy 2: 1-4, christians as citizens have specific responsibilities to a nation that gives liberties to its people. christians are obliged to live as good citizens by submitting to the human government. honor, or respect, is due to men in the high governmental station. a christian should reflect such respect not to gain some favor but because it is god’s will. peter 2: 14 notes that the purpose of the human government is to promote peace and justice in society. to submit to human government, peter includes three elements; obedience, respect, and good deeds.