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The secret of freedom lies in educating people, whereas the secret of tyranny is in keeping them ignorant.”
Any law which violates the inalienable rights of man is essentially unjust and tyrannical; it is not a law at all.
Atheism is aristocratic; the idea of a great Being that watches over oppressed innocence and punishes triumphant crime is altogether popular.
Again, it may be said, that to love justice and equality the people need no great effort of virtue; it is sufficient that they love themselves.
To punish the oppressors of humanity is clemency; to forgive them is cruelty.
Citizens, did you want a revolution without revolution?
lf the attribute of popular government in peace is virtue, the attribute of popular government in revolution is at one and the same time virtue and terror, virtue without which terror is fatal, terror without which virtue is impotent. The terror is nothing but justice, prompt, severe, inflexible; it is thus an emanation of virtue.
By sealing our work with our blood, we may see at least the bright dawn of universal happiness.
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