“It is not enough, citizens, to have destroyed the factions, it is necessary now to repair the evil that they have done to the country.”

— Louis Antoine de Saint-Just

Speech to the National Convention (April 15, 1794). [Source: Oeuvres Complètes de Saint-Just, Vol. 2 (2 vols., Paris, 1908), p. 367]

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