Robespierre stated that the main objective of achieving peace and liberty, is through people’s hearts. Peace and liberty can’t be achieved by forcing people to do things they don’t want to do. In the heart of every man, they strive for glory in their nation. Robespierre states this concept in the last paragraph of his “Republic of Virtue”. It explains how virtue ties into terror and how having a powerful nation must …showed first 75 words of 634 total…

…showed last 75 words of 634 total…isn’t wrong, it is a part of having good citizenship. This idea of terror and virtue is just a small idea of the main principles of democracy. Democracy, described by Robespierre, is “one of the most pressing needs of the patrie”. This was an identical idea of the colonists’ ideas in America, and look how far it got them. After all, America is one of the most powerful and successful countries in the world.