Caps Quote by Louis Antoine de Saint-Just

One cannot reign innocently: the insanity of doing so is evident. Every king is a rebel and a usurper.

— Louis Antoine de Saint-Just

A nation regenerates itself only upon heaps of corpses.

— Louis Antoine de Saint-Just

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

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

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

Most arts have produced miracles, while the art of government has produced nothing but monsters.

— Louis Antoine de Saint-Just

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

When a people, having become free, establish wise laws, their revolution is complete.

— Louis Antoine de Saint-Just

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

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

Keep cool and you command everybody.

— Louis Antoine de Saint-Just

Happiness is a new idea in Europe.

— Louis Antoine de Saint-Just