Frases de Maximilien Robespierre

„Será mais fácil governar o povo quando a mente humana adquirir maior atividade, luz, força e serenidade.“

—  Maximilien Robespierre

„Deus todo poderoso esta causa é Tua! Defende tu mesmo estas leis que gravastes em nossos corações.“

—  Maximilien Robespierre

„A mesma autoridade divina que ordena aos reis serem justos, proíbe aos povos serem escravos.“

—  Maximilien Robespierre

L'autorité divine qui ordonne aux rois d'être justes, défend aux peuples d'être esclaves.
citado em Robespierre‎ - Página 12, Marc Bouloiseau - Presses universitaires de France, 1957 - 128 páginas

„Não é por um povo que combatemos, mas pelo universo! Não pelos que vivem hoje, mas por todos aqueles que existirão.“

—  Maximilien Robespierre

n'est pas pour un peuple que nous combattons , mais pour l'univers? pour les hommes qui vivent aujourd'hui , mais pour tous ceux qui existeront?
Œuvres de Maximilien Robespierre: avec une notice historique, des notes et des commentaires, Volume 3‎ - Página 468 http://books.google.com.br/books?id=f4YfAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA468, Maximilien Robespierre, Laponneraye, Armand Carrel - Chez l'éditeur, 1840

„A morte não é o sono eterno. […] A morte é o início da imortalidade!“

—  Maximilien Robespierre, Œuvres de Robespierre

la mort n'est pas un sommeil éternel! [...] la mort est le commencement de l'immortalité.
Œuvres de Robespierre - página 150 http://books.google.com.br/books?id=WR8JAAAAQAAJ&pg=PA150, Maximilien Robespierre, Auguste Vermorel, editor Auguste Vermorel, editora F. Cournol, 1866

„Os Grandes Líderes-Robespierre - S. L. Carson - Ed. Nova Cultura“

—  Maximilien Robespierre

„Cidadãos, você queria uma revolução sem revolução?“

—  Maximilien Robespierre

„Democracy is a state in which the sovereign people, guided by laws which are its own work, does for itself all that it can do properly, and through delegates all that it cannot do for itself.“

—  Maximilien Robespierre

"On the Principles of Political Morality that Should Guide the National Convention in the Domestic Administration of the Republic" (5 February 1784/18 Ploviôse Year 2)

„We wish in our country that morality may be substituted for egotism, probity for false honour, principles for usages, duties for good manners, the empire of reason for the tyranny of fashion, a contempt of vice for a contempt of misfortune, pride for insolence, magnanimity for vanity, the love of glory for the love of money, good people for good company, merit for intrigue, genius for wit, truth for tinsel show, the attractions of happiness for the ennui of sensuality, the grandeur of man for the littleness of the great, a people magnanimous, powerful, happy, for a people amiable, frivolous and miserable; in a word, all the virtues and miracles of a Republic instead of all the vices and absurdities of a Monarchy.“

—  Maximilien Robespierre

Principles to Form the Basis of the Administration of the Republic (February 1794)

„Since virtue and equality are the soul of the republic, and that your aim is to found, to consolidate the republic, it follows, that the first rule of your political conduct should be, to let all your measures tend to maintain equality and encourage virtue, for the first care of the legislator should be to strengthen the principles on which the government rests. Hence all that tends to excite a love of country, to purify manners, to exalt the mind, to direct the passions of the human heart towards the public good, you should adopt and establish.“

—  Maximilien Robespierre

Principles to Form the Basis of the Administration of the Republic (February 1794)

„Our revolution has made me feel the full force of the axiom that history is fiction and I am convinced that chance and intrigue have produced more heroes than genius and virtue.“

—  Maximilien Robespierre

Original: (fr) Notre révolution m'a fait sentir tout le sens de l'axiome qui dit que l'histoire est un roman ; et je suis convaincu que la fortune et l'intrigue ont fait plus de héros, que le génie et la vertu.
Fonte: Lettres à ses commettants, 1ère série, n°10 http://www.royet.org/nea1789-1794/archives/journaux/lettres_commettants/robespierre_lettres_commettants_1_10.htm, (21 December 1792)

„The secret of freedom lies in educating people, whereas the secret of tyranny is in keeping them ignorant.“

—  Maximilien Robespierre

Original French: Le secret de la liberté est d'éclairer les hommes, comme celui de la tyrannie est de les retenir dans l'ignorance
Fonte: Oeuvres, Volume 2 http://books.google.com/books?id=iSMVAAAAQAAJ p. 253.

„It is with regret that I pronounce the fatal truth: Louis must die, so that the country may live.“

—  Maximilien Robespierre

Original French: Je prononce à regret cette fatale vérité... mais Louis doit mourir, parce qu'il faut que la patrie vive.
Speech to the National Convention http://www.royet.org/nea1789-1794/archives/journal_debats/an/1792/convention_1792_12_03.htm on the judgment of Louis XVI (3 December 1792)

„Any institution which does not suppose the people good, and the magistrate corruptible, is evil.“

—  Maximilien Robespierre

Original French: Tout institution qui ne suppose pas le peuple bon et le magistrat corruptible est vicieuse.

From article 19 of the Déclaration des droits de l'homme et du citoyen http://saintjust.free.fr/DDHC93.htm (21 April 1793)

„By sealing our work with our blood, we may see at least the bright dawn of universal happiness.“

—  Maximilien Robespierre

Original French: En scellant notre ouvrage de notre sang, nous puissions voir au moins briller l'aurore de la félicité universelle.
Speech to the National Convention (5 February 1794)

„The aim of constitutional government is to preserve the Republic; that of revolutionary government is to lay its foundation.“

—  Maximilien Robespierre

Christmas 1793 speech http://www.lrb.co.uk/v33/n22/hugh-roberts/who-said-gaddafi-had-to-go

„The government in a revolution is the despotism of liberty against tyranny.“

—  Maximilien Robespierre

Original French: Le gouvernement de la révolution est le despotisme de la liberté contre la tyrannie.
Speech to the National Convention http://www.royet.org/nea1789-1794/archives/discours/robespierre_principes_morale_politique_05_02_94.htm (5 February 1794)

„We must smother the internal and external enemies of the Republic or perish with it; now in this situation, the first maxim of your policy ought to be to lead the people by reason and the people's enemies by terror.“

—  Maximilien Robespierre

Original French: Il faut étouffer les ennemis intérieurs et extérieurs de la République, ou périr avec elle ; or, dans cette situation, la première maxime de votre politique doit être qu’on conduit le peuple par la raison, et les ennemis du peuple par la terreur.
Speech to the National Convention (5 February 1794)

„The policy of the London Cabinet largely contributed to the first movement of our Revolution…. Taking advantage of political tempests (the cabinet) aimed to effect in an exhausted and dismembered France a change of dynasty and to place the Duke of York on the throne of Louis XVI…. Pitt…. is an imbecile, whatever may be said of a reputation that has been much too greatly puffed up. A man who, abusing the influence acquired by him on an island placed haphazard in the ocean, is desirous of contending with the French people, could not have conceived of such an absurd plan elsewhere than in a madhouse.“

—  Maximilien Robespierre

Quotes from speeches (17 November 1793 & 26 January 1794) in La Révolution: III – Le Gouvernement Révolutionnaire (1883) by Hippolyte Taine, translated as The Revolution Vol. 3 (1885), by John Durand, Book 7 : The Governors, p. 144, footnote 3 https://books.google.com/books?id=dCBKAQAAMAAJ&pg=PA144&lpg=PA144