(Report by Robespierre, Pluviose 17, year, II.) "It has been said that terror is the incentive of despotic government.

Does yours, then, resemble despotism?
Yes, as the sword which flashes in the hands of the heroes of liberty, resembles that with which the satellites of tyranny are armed.....

The government of the Revolution is the despotism of freedom against tyranny."] [Footnote 2125: Ibid., XXXII, 353.

Decree of April 1791.

"The Convention declares, that, supported by the virtues of the French people, it will insure the triumph of the democratic revolution and show no pity in punishing its enemies."] [Footnote 2126: In the following portrayal of the ancient regime, the bombast and credulity of the day overflows in the most extravagant exaggerations (Buchez et Roux, XXXI., 300, Report, by Saint-Just, February 26, 1794.): "In 1788, Louis XVI.