“L’immoralitè est la base du despotisme comme la ventu est l’essence de la Rèpublique.”
(Translated: “Wickedness is the root of despotism as virtue is the essence of the Republic.”) – Maximilien Robespierre (1758-94) In the Convention, 7 May 1794, as cited by A. Cobban, in: ‘Aspects of the French Revolution’ (1968)