Days of Destruction Coming End of Jan. 2026 Maryland, USA
Tom Freeman Days of Destruction: August 24-25, 1814 Tom Freeman/White House Historical Association
If the mainspring of popular government in peacetime is virtue, amid
revolution it is at the same time [both] virtue and terror: virtue, without
which terror is fatal; terror, without which virtue is impotent. Terror is
nothing but prompt, severe, inflexible justice; it is therefore an emanation of
virtue. It is less a special principle than a consequence of the general
principle of democracy applied to our country's most pressing needs.