Question

The passage below is an excerpt from Robespierre's On the Moral and Political Principles of Domestic Policy (1794). Use this passage to answer the following question: We must smother the internal and external enemies of the Republic or perish with it; now in this situation, the first maxim of your policy ought to be to lead the people by reason and the people's enemies by terror. If the spring of popular government in time of peace is virtue, the springs of popular government in revolution are at once virtue and terror: virtue, without which terror is fatal; terror, without which virtue is powerless. Terror is nothing other than justice, prompt, severe, inflexible; it is therefore an emanation of virtue; it is not so much a special principle as it is a consequence of the general principle of democracy applied to our country's most urgent needs. Public Domain Which statement best summarizes Robespierre's argument?

Answer 1

Answer: b is correct revolutions must be ruthless in destroying the enemies of the people.

Options:

a.  Violence is equally regrettable no matter which side uses it.

b. Revolutions must be ruthless in destroying the enemies of the people.

c. The violence of the Reign of Terror was a mistake, but was limited.

d. In a revolution, the frenzy of the people cannot be controlled by law.

Answer 2

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Violence is equally regrettable no matter which side uses it. 
Revolutions must be ruthless in destroying the enemies of the people. 
In a revolution, the frenzy of the people cannot be controlled by law. 
The violence of the Reign of Terror was a mistake, but was limited.

The answer is Revolutions must be ruthless in destroying the enemies of the people.