Frases de Maximilien Robespierre
Maximilien Robespierre
Data de nascimento: 6. Maio 1758
Data de falecimento: 28. Julho 1794
Outros nomes: Robespierre, Maximilien Marie Isidore de Robespierre
Maximilien François Marie Isidore de Robespierre foi um advogado e político francês, e uma das personalidades mais importantes da Revolução Francesa.
Os seus amigos chamavam-lhe "O Incorruptível". Principal membro dos Montanha durante a Convenção, ele encarnou a tendência mais radical da Revolução, transformando-se numa das personagens mais controversas deste período. Os seus inimigos chamavam-lhe o “Candeia de Arras”, “Tirano” e “Ditador sanguinário” durante o Terror.
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François Mitterrand2
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Citações Maximilien Robespierre
„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)
„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
Oeuvres, Volume 2 http://books.google.com/books?id=iSMVAAAAQAAJ p. 253.
„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 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
Speech, Nov. 17, 1793 and speech, Jan.26, 1794 in Hippolyte Taine, The French Revolution, Volume 3, Chapter 1: The Psychology of the Jacobin Leaders
„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 French: 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.
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 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.“
— Maximilien Robespierre
Original French: La plus extravagante idée qui puisse naître dans la tête d'un politique est de croire qu'il suffise à un peuple d'entrer à main armée chez un peuple étranger, pour lui faire adopter ses lois et sa constitution. Personne n'aime les missionnaires armés; et le premier conseil que donnent la nature et la prudence, c'est de les repousser comme des ennemis.
Sur la guerre (1ère intervention), a speech to the Jacobin Club (2 January 1792)
