Original sentence: A leader in the French revolution, Maximilien Robespierre, proclaimed in 1794 that: “Terror is nothing other than justice, prompt, severe, inflexible; it is therefore an emanation of virtue; it is not so much a special principle as it is a consequence of the general principle of democracy applied to our country's most urgent needs.An early example of its use in the current sense is in Joseph Conrad's 1907 story "The Secret Agent", where it is used to describe anarchists attempting to cause terror and foment social disruption by blowing up Greenwich Observatory: "The venomous spluttering of the old terrorist without teeth was heard.Anarchists and Narodniks in Tsarist Russia, whose most notable action was the assassination of Alexander II.Madness alone is truly terrifying, inasmuch as you cannot placate it either by threats, persuasion, or bribes.The English word "terrorism" in the meaning "systematic use of terror as a policy" was first recorded in English dictionaries in 1798 — a meaning which differs from the modern understanding of the term.The Sons of Liberty were an underground group opposed to British Rule in the colonies, who committed several attacks, most famous among these was the Boston Tea Party.The term "terrorism" is comes from Latin terrere, "to frighten" via the French  word terrorisme, which is often associated with the regime de la terreur, the Reign of Terror of the revolutionary government in France from from 1793 to 1794.What is one to say to an act of destructive ferocity so absurd as to be incomprehensible, inexplicable, almost unthinkable; in fact, mad.”  The Committee of Public Safety agents that enforced the policies of "The Terror" were referred to as 'Terrorists"