“When a people, having become free, establish wise laws, their revolution is complete.”
(Autumn 1792) [Source: Oeuvres Complètes de Saint-Just, vol. 1 (2 vols., Paris, 1908), p. 264]
Louis Antoine de Saint-Just: Revolution
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“Those who make revolutions by halves do nothing but dig their own tombs.”
(January 1793) [Source: Oeuvres Complètes de Saint-Just, vol. 1 (2 vols., Paris, 1908), p. 414]
Fragment 3 (1794). [Source: Saint-Just, Fragments sur les institutions républicaines]
Fragment 13 (1794). [Source: Saint-Just, Fragments sur les institutions républicaines]
Fragment 3 (1794). [Source: Saint-Just, Fragments sur les institutions républicaines]
“Dare! — this word contains all the politics of our revolution.”
Osez! — ce mot renferme toute la politique de notre révolution.
Speech to the National Convention (February 26, 1794) http://books.google.com/books?client=safari&rls=en&q=%22ce%20mot%20renferme%20toute%20la%20politique%20de%22&oe=UTF-8&um=1&ie=UTF-8&sa=N&hl=en&tab=wp; though widely published in the above form, this has sometimes been misquoted in some recent publications http://www.royet.org/nea1789-1794/archives/discours/stjust_suspects_incarceres_26_02_94.htm as: Osez! — ce mot renferme toute la politique de votre révolution. [Dare! — this word contains all the politics of your revolution.]