Joseph Fouché Quotes
Terror, salutary terror, is here in truth the order of the day; it represses all the efforts of the wicked ; it divests crime of all covering and tinsel!
Terror conceptually in France and some other countries was the tool the government used to inhibit criminals.
Joseph Fouche, 1759–1820, 1st Duc d'Otrante, French Chief of Police, Letter to the Committee of Public Safety in the City of Lyon, December 1793
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The terror to which he referred was to the French Revolution’s executing former aristocrats and then including anyone suspected of monarchist sympathies. This quotation shows how fanatics can rationalize evil as justice.
The revolution turned on many of its initiators including Vergniaud. He was guillotined along with other Girondists.
The terror to which he referred was to the French Revolution’s executing former aristocrats and then including anyone suspected of monarchist sympathies.
It is a common misconception that anarchists would not have any societal mechanism for preventing and combatting crime. Anarchists believe in the long run that with anarchism the reasons and motivations for crime will disappear, but until then they generally have been willing to use force to protect against force being used against the citizens. To critics, this seems to be government, and a government which uses force. Anarchists have never well detailed how they would manage such a seemingly conflicting situation.
This has been the case in EVERY jurisdiction that has had capital punishment. Capital punishment does provide vengeance for victims, relatives and society. And in many societies execution is less expensive than prison for life. But it has never curtailed crime despite the example. In London, they used to have public executions as examples to inhibit crime. While the crowd was watching a pickpocket be hung, other pickpockets were relieving many spectators of their wallets and watches.
The Roman Catholic Defender Organization had about 300 thousand volunteers, and Belfast was the central location of the Defender leaders.
The “thieves” won in the sense that TR was the choice of the vast majority of the Republican voters of the time, yet the party bosses manipulated the convention to deny Roosevelt the nomination. Taft was nominated, and Roosevelt ran on the Bull Moose Party and outpolled Taft, but they split the Republican vote and lost to Democrat Woodrow Wilson.
Joseph Fouché, 1st Duc d'Otrante, 1st Comte Fouché was a French statesman, revolutionary, and Minister of Police under First Consul Napoleon Bonaparte, who later became Emperor Napoleon. He was particularly known for the ferocity with which he suppressed the Lyon insurrection during the Revolution in 1793 and for being minister of police under the Directory, the Consulate, and the Empire. In English texts, his title is often translated as Duke of Otranto.
