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[Anonymous No.13017897]

Based

[Anonymous No.13017933]

We wish an order of things where all low and cruel passions are enchained by the laws, all beneficent and generous feelings aroused; where ambition is the desire to merit glory and to serve one’s fatherland; where distinctions are born only of equality itself…

Where the citizen is subject to the magistrate, the magistrate to the people, the people to justice. Where the nation safeguards the welfare of each individual, and each individual proudly enjoys the prosperity and glory of his fatherland. Where all spirits are enlarged by the constant exchange of republican sentiments and by the need of earning the respect of a great people. Where the arts are the adornment of liberty that ennobles them. And where commerce is the source of public wealth, not simply of monstrous opulence for a few families.

We wish in a word to fulfil the requirements of nature, to accomplish the destiny of mankind, to make good the promises of philosophy… that France, hitherto illustrious among slave states, may eclipse the glory of all free peoples that have existed, become the model of all nations… That is our ambition; that is our aim.

What is the fundamental principle of democratic or popular government – that is to say, the essential mainspring upon which it depends and which makes it function? It is virtue. ...

The splendour of the goal of the French Revolution is simultaneously the source of our strength and of our weakness. Our strength, because it gives us an ascendancy of truth over falsehood and of public rights over private interests. Our weakness, because it rallies against us all vicious men, all those who in their hearts seek to despoil the people… It is necessary to stifle the domestic and foreign enemies of the Republic or perish with them.

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.

[Anonymous No.13018169]

I have long waited for a relevant time to post this.

[Anonymous No.13018220]

Based indeed.

Anyone who is afraid of the terror thereby admits his guilt.

I like to think of Lenin as a Russian Robespierre and Stalin as his Napoleon. Although its hardly that simple.

[Anonymous No.13018224]

All Jacobins should be exterminated.