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Louis Antoine de Saint-Just (1767 – 1794)


One of the leaders of the French Revolution.
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Louis Antoine de Saint-Just
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.
Saint-Just quotes
Peace and prosperity, public virtue, victory, everything is in the vigor of the laws. Outside of the laws everything is sterile and dead.
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In the circumstances in which the Republic finds itself, the constitution cannot be inaugurated; it would destroy itself ... The provisional government of France is revolutionary until there is peace.




One cannot reign innocently: the insanity of doing so is evident. Every king is a rebel and a usurper.
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Dare! — this word contains all the politics of our revolution.
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