Citizens, Did You Want A Revolution Without

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.

Omelets Are Not Made Without Breaking Eggs.

Death Is Not "an Eternal Sleep!" Citizens! Efface From The Tomb That Motto, Graven By Sacrilegious Hands, Which Spreads Over All Nature A Funereal Crape, Takes From Oppressed Innocence Its Support, And Affronts The Beneficent Dispensation Of Death! Inscribe Rather Thereon These Words: "death Is The Commencement Of Immortality!"

Formerly, When A King Died At Versailles The Reign Of His Successor Was Immediately Announced By The Cry: "the King Is Dead, Long Live The King", In Order To Make It Understood That Despotism Is Immortal! Now An Entire People, Moved By A Sublime Instinct, Cried: Long Live The Republic! To Teach The Universe That Tyranny Died With The Tyrant.

Food That Is Necessary For Man’s Existence Is As Sacred As Life Itself. Everything That Is Indispensable For Its Preservation Is The Common Property Of Society As A Whole. It Is Only The Surplus That Is Private Property And Can Be Safely Left To Individual Commercial Enterprise.