“I am made to combat crime, not to govern it. The time is not here where good men can serve their patrie with impunity; the defenders of liberty will only be outcasts, as long as the horde of rogues is in control.”

— Maximilien Robespierre

Last Speech to the National Convention (26 July 1794)

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French revolutionary lawyer and politician 1758–1794

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