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Crime butchers innocence to secure a throne, and innocence struggles with all its might against the attempts of crime.
On Political Morality (1794)
The government in a revolution is the despotism of liberty against tyranny.
On Political Morality (1794)
Indulgence for the royalists, cry certain men, mercy for the villains! No! mercy for the innocent, mercy for the weak, mercy for the unfortunate, mercy for humanity.
On Political Morality (1794)
By sealing our work with our blood, we may see at least the bright dawn of universal happiness. That is our ambition, that is our goal.
On Political Morality (1794)
Democracy is a state in which the sovereign people, guided by laws which are its own work, does for itself all that it can do properly, and through delegates all that it cannot do for itself.
On Political Morality (1794)
Happily virtue is natural in the people, [despite] aristocratical prejudices. A nation is truly corrupt, when, after having, by degrees lost its character and liberty, it slides from democracy into aristocracy or monarchy; this is the death of the political body by decrepitude....
On Political Morality (1794)