. How happy I will be if my feeble efforts are crowned with success and if, at the price of my devotion and sacrifices, my reputation is not tarnished by the crimes of the oppressors I will fight.”, “The general will rules in society as the private will governs each separate individual.”, “The most extravagant idea that can be born in the head of a political thinker is to believe that it suffices for people to enter, weapons in hand, among a foreign people and expect to have its laws and constitution embraced. Goodreads helps you follow your favorite authors. Numerous works develop his republican, bourgeois, and anticlerical view of the revolution. He also became the President of the powerful Jacobin political faction. There are no two ways of being free: one must be entirely free, or become a slave once more.”, “The people asks only for what is necessary, it only wants justice and tranquility, the rich aspire to everything, they want to invade and dominate everything. We are not justices of the peace; we are legislators to a new world.”, “The idea of a specifically Robespierrist terror was a myth, invented by the Termidoreans, the men who overthrew Robespierre, who themselves were very much implicated in the recourse to terror.”, “Ask Robespierre. I shall not speak to you of the opportunity that a war affords for a government to exhaust the people and to dissipate its treasure and to cover with an impenetrable veil its depredations and its errors . But while his 'Reign of Terror' reinvigorated the Revolution, it Quotes about Robespierre I want to know what historians generally think of Robespierre but i'm having sort of hard time researching ;_; Just quotes about him … Liberals have been bred by the elite to be bland, banal, comfortable Last Men and Ignavi. Maximilien Robespierre. You yourselves. Who shall trace the exact dividing line that marks off one form of extremism from its opposite? No one loves armed missionaries; the first lesson of nature and prudence is to repulse them as enemies.”, “Virtue, without which terror is destructive; terror, without which virtue is impotent. In Paris a … However, it was popularized by one of the most influential persons of the revolution and the Reign of Terror, Maximilien Robespierre. In more recent times, his reputation has suffered as historians have associated him with an attempt at a radical purification of politics through the killing of enemies. The constitution is the rule of liberty … A plot emerged and he was arrested on July 27th. Nationality: French. During the Soviet era, Robespierre was used as an example of a revolutionary figure. Dipingili come dèi o come mostri, o anche come uomini, se te ne viene l'estro. One after the other Danton, Robespierre and the rest went to the guillotine. What faction do I belong to? “. “War is always the first object of a powerful government which wishes to increase its power. He was educated in Paris and entered the same profession as his father. Robespierre was born in Arras, about 115 miles (180 kilometres) north of Paris, in 1758. Why are the elite still in charge after destroying the world’s economy? Just a moment while we sign you in to your Goodreads account. Let us know what’s wrong with this preview of, Report on the Principles of Political Morality. When we read in the books ascribed to Moses, Joshua, etc., that they (the Israelites) came by stealth upon whole nations of people, who, as the history itself shews, had given them no offence; that they put all those nations to the sword; that they spared neither age nor infancy; that they utterly destroyed men, women and children; that they left not a soul to breathe; expressions that are repeated over and over again in those books, and that too with exulting ferocity; are we sure these things are facts? This idea of history as made by great men is quite nonsensical, when you look at it from the point of view of the people. What account can we take of that, in revolution? Aulard - Founded the Société de l’Histoire de la Révolution and the bimonthly review Révolution française.