"If the basis of popular government in peacetime is virtue, the basis of popular government during a revolution is both virtue and terror; virtue, without which terror is baneful; terror, without which virtue is powerless. Terror is nothing more than speedy, severe and inflexible justice; it is thus an emanation of virtue; it is less a principle in itself, than a consequence of the general principle of democracy, applied to the most pressing needs of the patrie."
Maximilien Robespierre"On Political Morality" (5 February 1794)
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How interesting, I was just reading about the French revolution, Robespierre, Marat and the Jacobians.