Louis Antoine de Saint-Just Quotes
Speech to the members of the Committee of Public Safety, quoting Mirabeau, October 17, 1793. "Saint-Just: Colleague of Robespierre". Book by Eugene Newton Curtis, p. 236, 1973.
Most arts have produced miracles, while the art of government has produced nothing but monsters.
Louis Antoine de Saint-Just's speech to the National Convention, April 24, 1973.
Speech fragment, 1794.
Louis Antoine de Saint-Just's speech to the National Convention, April 24, 1793.
I have not found a single good man in government; I have found good only in the people.
Louis Antoine de Saint-Just's remarks on declaring the Minister of War, Charles François Dumouriez, a traitor (March 1793), as quoted in David William Bates "Enlightenment Aberrations: Error and Revolution in France" (p. 169), 2002.
Louis Antoine de Saint-Just's speech to the National Convention, November 13, 1792.
Speech fragment, 1794.
Dare! - this word contains all the politics of our revolution.
Speech to the National Convention, February 26, 1794.
Speech fragment, 1794.
Speech to the National Convention on March 17, 1794. "Saint-Just: Colleague of Robespierre". Book by Eugene Newton Curtis, p. 228, 1973.
When a people, having become free, establish wise laws, their revolution is complete.
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. 264), 1908.
Every political edict which is not based upon nature is wrong.
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. 306), 1908.
Louis Antoine de Saint-Just's remarks on autumn 1792, as quoted in "Oeuvres Completes de Saint-Just", Volume 1, edited by Charles Vellay, 1908.
"Discours sur la Constitution à donner à la France". Speech to the National Convention, April 24, 1793.
Speech on October 10, 1793. "Oeuvres Complètes de Saint-Just", Volume 2, pp. 83-88, 1908.