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With this speech, I have signed my own death sentence. I saw today that the league of miscreants is too strong, that I cannot hope to escape. I die without regrets, I leave you my legacy, it will be dear to you and you will defend it.

— Maximilien Robespierre Last Speech to the National Convention (1794)

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Any institution which does not suppose the people are good, and the magistrate is corruptible, is evil.

It is with regret that I pronounce the fatal truth: Louis must die, so that the country may live.

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You constantly allege the declaration of human rights, the principles of liberty, and you yourselves believed in it so little that you constitutionally decreed slavery.

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