Quotes by Maximilien Robespierre

"The secret of freedom lies in educating people, whereas the secret of tyranny is in keeping them ignorant."
— Maximilien Robespierre
"To punish the oppressors of humanity is clemency; to forgive them is cruelty."
— Maximilien Robespierre
"Peoples do not judge in the same way as courts of law; they do not hand down sentences, they throw thunderbolts; they do not condemn kings, they drop them back into the void; and this justice is worth just as much as that of the courts."
— Maximilien Robespierre
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Maximilien François Marie Isidore de Robespierre (/ˈroʊbzpjɛər/; French: [maksimiljɛ̃ ʁɔbɛspjɛʁ]; 6 May 1758 – 28 July 1794) was a French lawyer and statesman, widely recognised as one of the most inf...