"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"
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The "Incorruptible" because of his self-described moral virtue.
They wanted to overthrow the french monarchy (which they did) and institute a new government. Unfortunately the French Revolution was a violent bloodbath and the period that Robespierre ruled is commonly referred to as "the reign of terror"
after french revolution robespierre power in france.
Maximilien-Marie-Isidore de Robespierre.
Maximilian Robespierre