"There are matters in that book, said to be done by the express command of God, that are as shocking to humanity, and to every idea we have of moral justice, as any thing done by Robespierre, by Carrie..."
- Thomas Paine
"A sensibility that wails almost exclusively over the enemies of liberty seems suspect to me. Stop shaking the tyrant's bloody robe in my face, or I will believe that you wish to put Rome in chains."
- Maximilien de Robespierre
"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..."
"And Robespierre, the Incorruptible, who loved us so much he cut off our heads so we would not be troubled by too many thoughts."
- Jennifer Donnelly