To punish the oppressors of humanity is clemency; to forgive them is cruelty.
Maximilien Robespierre
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Is it to be thought unreasonable that the people, in atonement for wrongs of a century, demand the vengeance of a single day?
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Crime butchers innocence to secure a throne, and innocence struggles with all its might against the attempts of crime.
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