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"You do your own time in prison. You don't do anyone else's time for them."
"Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It would be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron's cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end for they do so with the approval of their own conscience."
"Everyone is supposed to be on equal ground and the equal ground is supposed to be based on qualifications."
"Helping othersI order you to assist any oppressed person, whether he is a Moslem or not."
"Our safety, our liberty, depends upon preserving the Constitution of the United States as our fathers made it inviolate. The people of the United States are the rightful masters of both Congress and the courts, not to overthrow the Constitution, but to overthrow the men who pervert the Constitution."
"Judge righteously between every man and his brother, and the stranger that is with him. Ye shall not respect persons in judgement; but ye shall hear the small as well as the great; ye shall not be afraid of the face of man; for the judgement is God's."
"Tis mightiest in the mightiest it becomes The throned monarch better than his crown His sceptre shows the force of temporal power The attribute to awe and majesty Wherein doth sit the dread and fear of kings But mercy is above this sceptred sway It is enthroned in the hearts of kings It is an attribute to God himself And earthly power doth then show likest God's When mercy seasons justice."
"Justice while she winks at crimes, Stumbles on innocence sometimes."
Explore more quotes by Maximilien Robespierre
"Any law which violates the inalienable rights of man is essentially unjust and tyrannical; it is not a law at all."
"Any institution which does not suppose the people good, and the magistrate corruptible, is evil."
"Again, it may be said, that to love justice and equality the people need no great effort of virtue; it is sufficient that they love themselves."
"The secret of freedom lies in educating people, whereas the secret of tyranny is in keeping them ignorant."
"Crime butchers innocence to secure a throne, and innocence struggles with all its might against the attempts of crime."
"Atheism is aristocratic; the idea of a great Being that watches over oppressed innocence and punishes triumphant crime is altogether popular."
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