“Indulgence for the royalists, cry certain men, mercy for the villains! No! mercy for the innocent, mercy for the weak, mercy for the unfortunate, mercy for humanity.”

— Maximilien Robespierre

"On Political Morality" (5 February 1794)

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French revolutionary lawyer and politician 1758–1794

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