Let Revolutionists be Romans, not Tatars.

 

Let Revolutionists be Romans, not Tatars.
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Speech to the National Convention (March 17, 1794). [Source: Saint-Just quoted in Eugene N. Curtis, Saint-Just: Colleague of Robespierre (New York: Octagon Books, 1973), p. 228]

 

Louis Antoine de Saint-Just

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