The king must die so that the country can live.

Terror is only justice: prompt, severe and inflexible; it is then an emanation of virtue; it is less a distinct principle than a natural consequence of the general principle of democracy, applied to the most pressing wants of the country.

The general will rules in society as the private will governs each separate individual.

Pity is treason.

Crime butchers innocence to secure a throne, and innocence struggles with all its might against the attempts of crime.

To punish the oppressors of humanity is clemency; to forgive them is cruelty.