Offences committed by people's representatives should be severely and promptly punished. No one has the right to claim to be more inviolable than other citizens. (Maximilien Robespierre)

Offences committed by people's representatives should be severely and promptly punished. No one has the right to claim to be more inviolable than other citizens.

Maximilien Robespierre

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