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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.

— Louis Antoine de Saint-Just Fragment 3 (1794)

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In every Revolution a dictator is needed to save the state by force, or censors to save it by virtue.

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

Nothing so nearly resembles virtue as a great crime.

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

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

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