French revolutionary lawyer and politician (1758–1794)
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The architect of the Reign of Terror who sent thousands to the guillotine in the name of revolutionary virtue — before the revolution devoured him. His ten months on the Committee of Public Safety redefined political violence as moral duty, and his name still splits historians between monster and idealist.
Maximilien Robespierre was a French lawyer who rose through the Revolution on principle: he fought for universal male suffrage, the abolition of the slave trade, and the right of common citizens to bear arms. Elected to the National Convention in September 1792, he became a radical Jacobin leader, and by July 1793 sat on the Committee of Public Safety. Disillusionment with fellow revolutionaries drove him to justify the harsh measures of the Terror — summary trials, mass executions, the machinery of virtue enforced at knifepoint. The Convention turned on him. On 9 Thermidor, he was arrested an…
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Citizens, imagination usually sets the limits of the possible and the impossible; but when you have the will to do good, you must have the courage to cross these limits.
Freedom can never be found by the use of a foreign force
The general will rules in society as the private will governs each separate individual.
You have driven out the kings: but have you driven out the vices that their fatal domination has bred within you?
poverty corrupts the People’s behaviour and degrades its soul; it predisposes it to crime
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