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Lf The Attribute Of Popular Government In Peace Is Virtue, The Attribute Of Popular Government In Revolution Is At One And The Same Time Virtue And Terror, Virtue Without Which Terror Is Fatal, Terror Without Which Virtue Is Impotent. The Terror Is Nothing But Justice, Prompt, Severe, Inflexible; It Is Thus An Emanation Of Virtue.

The Most Extravagant Idea That Can Be Born In The Head Of A Political Thinker Is To Believe That It Suffices For People To Enter, Weapons In Hand, Among A Foreign People And Expect To Have Its Laws And Constitution Embraced. No One Loves Armed Missionaries; The First Lesson Of Nature And Prudence Is To Repulse Them As Enemies.

Softness To Traitors Will Destroy Us All.

Peoples Do Not Judge In The Same Way As Courts Of Law; They Do Not Hand Down Sentences, They Throw Thunderbolts; They Do Not Condemn Kings, They Drop Them Back Into The Void; And This Justice Is Worth Just As Much As That Of The Courts.

Omelets Are Not Made Without Breaking Eggs.