Louis Antoine de Saint-Just Quotes

If all people are free, all are equal. If they are equal, they are just.

Monarchy is an outrage which even the blind of an entire people cannot justify... all men hold from nature the secret mission to destroy wherever it my be found. No man can reign innocently. The folly is too evident. Every king is a rebel and a usurper. Do kings themselves treat otherwise those who seek to usurp their authority?

It is impossible to reign innocently.

When a people, having become free, establish wise laws, their revolution is complete... Peace and prosperity, public virtue, victory, everything is in the vigor of the laws. Outside of the laws, everything is sterile and dead.

Fame is an empty noise. Let us put our ears to the centuries that have gone: we no longer hear anything; those who, at another time, shall walk among our urns, shall hear no more. The good - that is what we must pursue, whatever the price, preferring the title of a dead hero to that of a living coward.

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

Keep cool and you command everybody.

To dare: that is the whole secret of revolutions.

Morality is stronger than tyrants.