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Maximilien Robespierre on Veterans Day

1758–1794 France

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Let tyranny reign a single day, and there will be no more patriots the day after. Yet one or the other has to yield.

It is by the progress of philosophy and by the spectacle of the happiness of France, that you will extend the empire of our revolution, and not by the force of arms and by the calamities of war.

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Maximilien Robespierre (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.