Great Throughts Treasury
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Louis Antoine de Saint-Just, fully Louis Antoine Léon de Saint-Just
French Revolutionary Leader, Intimate of Robespierre
"Power belongs to the self-possessed."
"It is impossible to reign innocently."
"When a people, having become free, establish wise laws, their revolution is complete."
"You who make the laws, the vices and the virtues of the people will be your work."
"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."
"Every political edict which is not based upon nature is wrong."
"Most arts have produced miracles, while the art of government has produced nothing but monsters."