Source: Principles to Form the Basis of the Administration of the Republic (February 1794)
Maximilien Robespierre: Quotes about people (page 2)
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Original: (fr) XXXIII. Les délits des mandataires du peuple doivent être sévèrement et facilement punis. Nul n'a le droit de se prétendre plus inviolable que les autres citoyens.
Source: "Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen, proposed by Maximilien Robespierre" (24 April, 1793)
"Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen, proposed by Maximilien Robespierre" (24 April, 1793)
Original: (fr) XXXV. Les hommes de tous les pays sont frères, et les différents peuples doivent s'entraider selon leur pouvoir comme les citoyens du même état.
“Any institution which does not suppose the people good, and the magistrate corruptible, is evil.”
From article 19 of the Déclaration des droits de l'homme et du citoyen http://saintjust.free.fr/DDHC93.htm (21 April 1793)
Original: (fr) Tout institution qui ne suppose pas le peuple bon et le magistrat corruptible est vicieuse.
“When will the interests of governments be amalgamated with those of the people? Never!”
Note found in his notebook, after his death
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“Poverty corrupts the People’s behaviour and degrades its soul; it predisposes it to crime.”
Robespierre: A Revolutionary life, p.43
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