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“Ask that merchant in human flesh what property is. He will tell you, pointing to the long bier that he calls a ship and in which he has herded and shackled men who still appear to be alive: “Those are my property; I bought them at so much a head.””

Maximilien Robespierre

Question that nobleman, who has lands and ships or who thinks that the world has been turned upside down since he has had none, and he will give you a similar view of property.
Condemning the defense of Slavery, Galleys and Serfdom as property
On Property (24 April 1793)

Appearance , Men

“Death, always Death! And the wretches cast it upon me. What a memory I shall leave behind if this lasts. Life is a burden to me.”

Maximilien Robespierre

SOURCE https://books.google.com.au/books?id=pA4LF2gD61sC&pg=PA419&lpg=PA419&dq=%E2%80%9CWhat+a+memory+I+shall+leave+behind+me+if+this+lasts!%E2%80%9D+robespierre&source=bl&ots=H7X80hMmtp&sig=ACfU3U0gG5lHCy5wZrS4cArBVcEFLBhyjQ&hl=en&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwjVjpKnvvPyAhValEsFHS7xABkQ6AF6BAgCEAM#v=onepage&q=%E2%80%9CWhat%20a%20memory%20I%20shall%20leave%20behind%20me%20if%20this%20lasts!%E2%80%9D%20robespierre&f=false
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Memory , Life , Death

“When will the interests of governments be amalgamated with those of the people? Never!”

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Note found in his notebook, after his death
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People

“Whoever tries to stop the saying of mass is a worse fanatic than the priest who says it.”

Maximilien Robespierre

Attacking the Dechristianization movement
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“To be armed for personal defence is the right of every man, to be armed to defend freedom and the existence of the common fatherland is the right of every citizen.”

Maximilien Robespierre

On the organisation of the National Guard (5 December 1790)
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Freedom , Personality

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

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“Mean spirits, you whose only measure of value is gold, I have no desire to touch your treasures, however impure may have been the source of them.”

Maximilien Robespierre

On Property (24 April 1793)

“You constantly allege the declaration of human rights, the principles of liberty, and you yourselves believed in it so little that you constitutionally decreed slavery.”

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Attacking the defense of slavery, Session of National Constituent Assembly 13 May, 1791
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“My life? Oh, my life I abandon without a regret! I have seen the Past; and I foresee the Future. What friend of his country would wish to survive the moment when he could no longer serve it — when he could no longer defend innocence against oppression?”

Maximilien Robespierre

Last Speech to the National Convention (26 July 1794)

Country , Past , Future , Life

“For all these things have been illegal, as illegal as the Revolution, as the fall of the Monarchy and of the Bastille, as illegal as liberty itself... Citizens, did you want a revolution without a revolution?”

Maximilien Robespierre

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Original: (fr) Citoyens, vouliez-vous une révolution sans révolution?

“For all these things have been illegal, as illegal as the Revolution, as the fall of the Monarchy and of the Bastille, as illegal as liberty itself”

Maximilien Robespierre

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Original: (fr) Citoyens, vouliez-vous une révolution sans révolution?

“Let all of Europe league against us and Europe will be defeated.”

Maximilien Robespierre

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Source: Speech on the King's flight to the Jacobin club

“Let tyranny reign a single day, and there will be no more patriots the day after. Yet one or the other has to yield.”

Maximilien Robespierre

Source https://www.cairn-int.info/article-E_COMM_035_0436--the-meaning-of-the-terror-in-the-french.htm
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“Freedom can never be found by the use of a foreign force.”

Maximilien Robespierre

Opposing the annexation of Belgium, 5th February 1793. Robespierre, Oeuvres, v. 270
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Freedom

“Poverty corrupts the People’s behaviour and degrades its soul; it predisposes it to crime.”

Maximilien Robespierre

Robespierre: A Revolutionary life, p.43
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Soul , People

“It is by the progress of philosophy and by the spectacle of the happiness of France, that you will extend the empire of our revolution, and not by the force of arms and by the calamities of war.”

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Speech to the National Convention, 10th April 1793
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War , Happiness

“You have driven out the kings: but have you driven out the vices that their funest domination has bred within you?”

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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.”

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13 August 1793, Presenting his education plan to the National Convention
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Courage , Imagination