Softness To Traitors Will Destroy Us All.

Terror Is Only Justice: Prompt, Severe And Inflexible; It Is Then An Emanation Of Virtue; It Is Less A Distinct Principle Than A Natural Consequence Of The General Principle Of Democracy, Applied To The Most Pressing Wants Of The Country.

It Is With Regret That I Pronounce The Fatal Truth: Louis Ought To Perish Rather Than A Hundred Thousand Virtuous Citizens; Louis Must Die That The Country May Live

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.

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.

Softness To Traitors Will Destroy Us All.