Any institution which does not suppose the people good, and the magistrate corruptible, is evil.
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The general will rules in society as the private will governs each separate individual.
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Any law which violates the inalienable rights of man is essentially unjust and tyrannical; it is not a law at all.
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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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It is with regret that I pronounce the fatal truth Louis ought to perish rather than a hundred thousand virtuous citizens Louis must die that the country may live
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