Louis Antoine de Saint-Just

“One cannot reign innocently: the insanity of doing so is evident. Every king is a rebel and a usurper.”

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

“Peace and prosperity, public virtue, victory, everything is in the vigor of the laws. Outside of the laws everything is sterile and dead.”

“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.”