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We must smother the internal and external enemies of the Republic or perish with it now in this situation, the first maxim of your policy ought to be to lead the people by reason and the people's enemies by terror.
Maximilien Robespierre
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Maximilien Robespierre
Age: 36 †
Born: 1758
Born: May 6
Died: 1794
Died: July 28
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Formerly, when a king died at Versailles the reign of his successor was immediately announced by the cry: The king is dead, long live the king, in order to make it understood that despotism is immortal! Now an entire people, moved by a sublime instinct, cried: Long live the Republic! to teach the universe that tyranny died with the tyrant.
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No one loves armed missionaries the first lesson of nature and prudence is to repulse them as enemies.
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