They call me a tyrant . . . One arrives at a tyrant's throne by the help of scoundrels . . . What faction do I belong to? You yourselves. What is that faction which, since the Revolution began, has crushed the factions and swept away hireling traitors? It is you, it is the people, it is the principles of the Revolution. 
Maximilien de Robespierre, Robespierre
execution, french-revolution, guillotine, martyrdom, populism, revolution