Louis Antoine de Saint-Just - People Quotes

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Insurrection is the exclusive right of the people and of the citizen. Every foreigner, every man clothed with public authority, is outlawed if he proposes it and must be put to death as a usurper of sovereignty and as interested in fomenting troubles for the purpose of doing evil or of adorning himself. Insurrections taking place under a despotism are always salutary. Those which break out in a free state are sometimes dangerous for liberty itself, because the revolt usurps its sublime pretexts and its sacred name. Revolts in free states leave long and painful wounds which bleed a whole century.

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The French people recognize the Supreme Being and the immortality of the soul. The first day of every month is to be dedicated to the eternal.

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

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I have not found a single good man in government; I have found good only in the people.

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You who make the laws, the vices and the virtues of the people will be your work.

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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.

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