The General Will Rules In Society As

Atheism Is Aristocratic; The Idea Of A Great Being That Watches Over Oppressed Innocence And Punishes Triumphant Crime Is Altogether Popular.

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.

The Revolution Is The War Of Liberty Against Its Enemies. The Constitution Is The Rule Of Liberty Against Its Enemies. The Constitution Is The Rule Of Liberty When Victorious And Peaceable.

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.

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 Just As Much As That Of The Courts.