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Society owes protection only to peaceable citizens; the only citizens in the Republic are the republicans. For it, the royalists, the conspirators are only strangers or, rather, enemies. This terrible war waged by liberty against tyranny- is it not indivisible? Are the enemies within not the allies of the enemies without? The assassins who tear our country apart, the intriguers who buy the consciences that hold the people's mandate; the traitors who sell them; the mercenary pamphleteers hired to dishonor the people's cause, to kill public virtue, to stir up the fire of civil discord, and to prepare political counterrevolution by moral counterrevolution-are all those men less guilty or less dangerous than the tyrants whom they serve?(Justification of the Use of Terror).
Maximilien Robespierre was a French lawyer and politician who became increasingly popular for his attacks on the monarchy and his advocacy of democratic reforms (BBC). The people who work for the King who have high nobility are the enemies of the people. The men who Robespierre mentions are not so much guilty or dangerous but caught up in what the monarchy has to say about the rebellion. The enemies will gain support by attacking common people to distract or throw the revolution off course by making them believe that they are friends or for the protection of the French people.
Maximilien Robespierre was a French lawyer and politician who became increasingly popular for his attacks on the monarchy and his advocacy of democratic reforms (BBC). The people who work for the King who have high nobility are the enemies of the people. The men who Robespierre mentions are not so much guilty or dangerous but caught up in what the monarchy has to say about the rebellion. The enemies will gain support by attacking common people to distract or throw the revolution off course by making them believe that they are friends or for the protection of the French people.