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It is not enough, citizens, to have destroyed the factions, it is necessary now to repair the evil that they have done to the country.
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Speech to the National Convention (April 15, 1794). [Source: Oeuvres Compl?tes de Saint-Just, Vol. 2 (2 vols., Paris, 1908), p. 367]

 

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