Louis Antoine De Saint-Just Quotes

#1. You who make the laws, the vices and the virtues of the people will be your work. - Author: Louis Antoine De Saint-Just

#2. When a people, having become free, establish wise laws, their revolution is complete ... Peace and prosperity, public virtue, victory, everything is in the vigor of the laws. Outside of the laws, everything is sterile and dead. - Author: Louis Antoine De Saint-Just

#3. A nation regenerates itself only upon heaps of corpses. - Author: Louis Antoine De Saint-Just

#4. Happiness is a new idea in Europe. - Author: Louis Antoine De Saint-Just

#5. Dare! - this word contains all the politics of our revolution. - Author: Louis Antoine De Saint-Just

#6. I do not belong to any faction, I will fight them all. - Author: Louis Antoine De Saint-Just

#7. One does not make revolutions by halves. - Author: Louis Antoine De Saint-Just

#8. If all people are free, all are equal. If they are equal, they are just. - Author: Louis Antoine De Saint-Just

#9. One cannot reign innocently: the insanity of doing so is evident. Every king is a rebel and a usurper. - Author: Louis Antoine De Saint-Just

#10. It is time that we labored for the happiness of the people. Legislators who are to bring light and order into the world must pursue their course with inexorable tread, fearless and unswerving as the sun. - Author: Louis Antoine De Saint-Just

#11. Keep cool and you command everybody. - Author: Louis Antoine De Saint-Just

#12. The French people recognizes the Supreme Being and the immortality of the soul. The first day of every month is to be dedicated to the eternal. - Author: Louis Antoine De Saint-Just

#13. It is impossible to reign innocently. - Author: Louis Antoine De Saint-Just

#14. In every Revolution a dictator is needed to save the state by force, or censors to save it by virtue. - Author: Louis Antoine De Saint-Just

#15. I have not found a single good man in government; I have found good only in the people. - Author: Louis Antoine De Saint-Just

#16. 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. - Author: Louis Antoine De Saint-Just

#17. Morality is stronger than tyrants. - Author: Louis Antoine De Saint-Just

#18. It would be leaving very little to leave a life in which one must
be either the accomplice or the silent witness of evil. - Author: Louis Antoine De Saint-Just

#19. Let Revolutionists be Romans, not Tatars. - Author: Louis Antoine De Saint-Just

#20. 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. - Author: Louis Antoine De Saint-Just

#21. The vessel of Revolution can arrive at port only on a sea reddened by torrents of blood. - Author: Louis Antoine De Saint-Just