Question

what was the justification of the use of terror by Robespiere?​

Answer 1

Answer:

The justification of the massacres was that those killed were enemies of the republic, counterrevolutionaries who had conspired against that equality, justice, and reason whose realization would “establish the felicity of perhaps the entire human race.”

Answer 2

Answer:

In a speech given to the National Convention in February 1794, Robespierre justifies the use of revolutionary terror: “To found and consolidate democracy, to achieve the peaceable reign of the constitutional laws, we must end the war of liberty against tyranny and pass safely across the storms of the revolution.