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Robespierre's revolutionary pairing: popular government needs virtue, but revolution also needs terror as severe justice.
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virtue and terror
Robespierre's revolutionary pairing: popular government needs virtue, but revolution also needs terror as severe justice.
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"...to lead the people by reason and the people's enemy by terror. Okay? This reign of terror, it is about the ultimate victory against..."
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