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Louis Antoine de Saint-Just

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Every political edict which is not based upon nature is wrong.
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(Autumn 1792) [Source: Oeuvres Compl?tes de Saint-Just, vol. 1 (2 vols., Paris, 1908), p. 306]

 
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