Louis Antoine De Saint-Just Quotes
The vessel of Revolution can arrive at port only on a sea reddened by torrents of blood.
If all people are free, all are equal. If they are equal, they are just.
Most arts have produced miracles, while the art of government has produced nothing but monsters.
I have not found a single good man in government; I have found good only in the people.
In every Revolution a dictator is needed to save the state by force, or censors to save it by virtue.
When a people, having become free, establish wise laws, their revolution is complete.
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.
The Revolution has grown cold; all its principles are weakened; there remains only red caps worn by intriguers. The exercise of terror has made crime blasé, as strong liquors made the palace blasé.
You who make the laws, the vices and the virtues of the people will be your work.
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.
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.
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.
What produces the general good is always terrible or seems bizarre when begun too soon. The Revolution must stop when it has perfected public happiness and liberty through the laws.