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• 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.

  Louis Antoine de Saint-Just

  Country, Evil, Citizens

  Speech to the National Convention on April 15, 1794. "Oeuvres Complètes de Saint-Just", Volume 2, p. 367, 1908.

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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.

  Louis Antoine de Saint-Just

  Light, Order, People

  Louis Antoine de Saint-Just's speech to the National Convention (December 27, 1792), as quoted in "Oeuvres Completes de Saint-Just", Volume 1, edited by Charles Vellay (p. 383), 1908.

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• 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.

  Louis Antoine de Saint-Just

  People, Soul, Months

  Speech fragment, 1794.

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

  Louis Antoine de Saint-Just

  Law, People, Vices

  Louis Antoine de Saint-Just's remarks on autumn 1792, as quoted in "Oeuvres Completes de Saint-Just", Volume 1, edited by Charles Vellay (p. 380), 1908.

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• 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.

  Louis Antoine de Saint-Just

  Law, Liberty, Revolution

  Speech fragment, 1794.

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• Happiness is a new idea in Europe.

  Louis Antoine de Saint-Just

  Europe, Ideas, New Ideas

  "Sur le mode d'exécution du décret contre les ennemis de la Révolution". Speech to the National Convention, March 03, 1794.

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