“There were two ‘Reigns of Terror’, if we would but remember it; the one wrought murder in hot passion, the other in cold blood; the one lasted mere months, the other had lasted a thousand years; the one inflicted death upon ten thousand persons, the other upon a hundred million; but our shudders are all for the horrors of the minor Terror, the momentary Terror. A city cemetery could contain the coffins filled by that brief Terror which we have all been taught so diligently to shiver at; but all France could hardly contain the coffins filled by that older Terror—that unspeakably bitter Terror which none of us has been taught to see in its vastness or pity as it deserves." -- Mark Twain