“I have not found a single good man in government; I have found good only in the people.”

— Louis Antoine de Saint-Just

On declaring the Minister of War, Charles François Dumouriez, a traitor (March 1793). [Source: David William Bates, Enlightenment aberrations: error and revolution in France (Cornell University Press, 2002), p. 169]

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