When human statecraft attaches a chain to the feet of a free man, whom it makes a slave in contempt of nature and citizenship, eternal justice rivets the other end about the tyrant's neck. — Louis Antoine de Saint-Just Copy Share Image
One cannot reign innocently: the insanity of doing so is evident. Every king is a rebel and a usurper. — Louis Antoine de Saint-Just Copy Share Image
A nation regenerates itself only upon heaps of corpses. — Louis Antoine de Saint-Just Copy Share Image
It is time that we labored for the happiness of the people. Legislators who are to bring light and order into the world must… — Louis Antoine de Saint-Just Copy Share Image
It has always seemed to me that the social order was implicit in the very nature of things, and required nothing more from the… — Louis Antoine de Saint-Just Copy Share Image
What produces the general good is always terrible or seems bizarre when begun too soon. The Revolution must stop when it has perfected public… — Louis Antoine de Saint-Just Copy Share Image
The Revolution has grown cold; all its principles are weakened; there remains only red caps worn by intriguers. The exercise of terror has made… — Louis Antoine de Saint-Just Copy Share Image
Most arts have produced miracles, while the art of government has produced nothing but monsters. — Louis Antoine de Saint-Just Copy Share Image
When a people, having become free, establish wise laws, their revolution is complete... Peace and prosperity, public virtue, victory, everything is in the vigor… — Louis Antoine de Saint-Just Copy Share Image
When a people, having become free, establish wise laws, their revolution is complete. — Louis Antoine de Saint-Just Copy Share Image
In the circumstances in which the Republic finds itself, the constitution cannot be inaugurated; it would destroy itself. The provisional government of France is… — Louis Antoine de Saint-Just Copy Share Image
The legislator commands the future; to be feeble will avail him nothing: it is for him to will what is good and to perpetuate… — Louis Antoine de Saint-Just Copy Share Image
