Softness To Traitors Will Destroy Us All.

Any Institution Which Does Not Suppose The People Good, And The Magistrate Corruptible, Is Evil.

One Can...never Create [freedom] By An Invading Force.

It Has Been Said That Terror Is The Principle Of Despotic Government. 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 ... The Government Of The Revolution Is Liberty's Despotism Against Tyranny.

Is It To Be Thought Unreasonable That The People, In Atonement For Wrongs Of A Century, Demand The Vengeance Of A Single Day?

Terror Is Only Justice: Prompt, Severe And Inflexible; It Is Then An Emanation Of Virtue; It Is Less A Distinct Principle Than A Natural Consequence Of The General Principle Of Democracy, Applied To The Most Pressing Wants Of The Country.