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so:text | If the mainspring of popular government in peacetime is virtue, the mainspring of popular government in revolution is both virtue and terror: virtue, without which terror is disastrous; terror, without which virtue is powerless. Terror is nothing but prompt, severe, inflexible justice; it is therefore an emanation of virtue; it is not so much a specific principle as a consequence of the general principle of democracy applied to our homeland’s most pressing needs. (en) |
so:isPartOf | https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Maximilien_Robespierre |
so:description | On Political Morality" (5 February 1794) (en) |
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