Thomas Jefferson's writings influenced the Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen, a document that established the foundation of the French Revolution.
The Declaration was a statement of ideals that France would strive to achieve in the future.
How Jefferson was involved:
Jefferson was a close friend of the Marquis de Lafayette, who helped draft the Declaration.
Jefferson's writings inspired the Declaration's content. Jefferson's Declaration of Independence also influenced the Declaration.
What the Declaration established: The Declaration established the ideals of liberty, equality, and fraternity
The Declaration codified the rights to liberty, property, security, and resistance to oppression. The Declaration established that all people are equal in the eyes of the law. The Declaration established that people have the right to free speech and expression.
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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. ― Maximilien de Robespierre
“There are only two parties in France: the people and its enemies. We must exterminate those miserable villains who are eternally conspiring against the rights of man. We must exterminate all our enemies.
― Maximilien de Robespierre
“The secret of freedom lies in educating people, whereas the secret of tyranny is in keeping them ignorant.”
“The revolution is the war of liberty against its enemies. The Constitution is the rule of liberty against its enemies. The constitution is the rule of liberty when victorious and peaceable.”
“To punish the oppressors of humanity is clemency; to forgive them is cruelty. ― Maximilien de Robespierre
“To defend the oppressed against their oppressors, to plead the cause of the weak against the strong who exploit and crush them, this is the duty of all hearts that have not been spoiled by egoism and corruption… It is so sweet to devote oneself to one’s fellows that I do not know how there can be so many unfortunates still without support or defenders. As for me, my life’s task will be to help those who suffer and to pursue through my avenging speech those who take pleasure in the pain of others. How happy I will be if my feeble efforts are crowned with success and if, at the price of my devotion and sacrifices, my reputation is not tarnished by the crimes of the oppressors I will fight.”
― Maximilien de Robespierre
― Maximilien de Robespierre
“Virtue, without which terror is destructive; terror, without which virtue is impotent. Terror is only justice prompt, severe and inflexible; it is then an emanation of virtue.
― Maximilien de Robespierre, Report on the Principles of Political Morality
― Maximilien de Robespierre, Report on the Principles of Political Morality
Pity is treason. ― Maximilien de Robespierre
Citizens, did you want a revolution without a revolution? ― Maximilien de Robespierre
”Death is not "an eternal sleep!" Citizens! efface from the tomb that motto, graven by sacrilegious hands, which spreads over all nature a funeral crape, takes from oppressed innocence its support, and affronts the beneficent dispensation of death! Inscribe rather thereon these words: "Death is the commencement of immortality! ― Maximilien de Robespierre
Citizens, did you want a revolution without a revolution? ― Maximilien de Robespierre
”Death is not "an eternal sleep!" Citizens! efface from the tomb that motto, graven by sacrilegious hands, which spreads over all nature a funeral crape, takes from oppressed innocence its support, and affronts the beneficent dispensation of death! Inscribe rather thereon these words: "Death is the commencement of immortality! ― Maximilien de Robespierre
Softness to traitors will destroy us all.― Maximilien de Robespierre
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