Quotes from Louis Antoine de Saint-Just

Every political edict which is not based upon nature is wrong.

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.

In the circumstances in which the Republic finds itself, the constitution cannot be inaugurated; it would destroy itself. The provisional government of France is revolutionary until there is peace.

It is impossible to reign innocently.

Most arts have produced miracles, while the art of government has produced nothing but monsters.

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

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

Keep cool and you command everybody.