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Louis Antoine de Saint-Just Quotes: 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.
         

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.


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This page presents the quote "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.". Author of this quote is Louis Antoine de Saint-Just. This quote is about citizenship, men, slave, justice, contempt, eternal, nature, free man, tyrants,.