When a people, having become free, establish wise laws, their revolution is complete... Peace and prosperity, public virtue, victory, everything is in… — 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
If all people are free, all are equal. If they are equal, they are just. — Louis Antoine de Saint-Just Copy Share Image
When human statecraft attaches a chain to the feet of a free man, whom it makes a slave in contempt of nature… — 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 human spirit than care in arranging the various elements; that a people could be governed without being made thralls or libertines or victims thereby; that man was born for peace and liberty, and became miserable and… — Louis Antoine de Saint-Just Copy Share
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
