“The legislator commands the future; to be feeble will avail him nothing: it is for him to will what is good and to perpetuate it; to make man what he desires to be: for the laws, working upon the social body, which is inert in itself, can produce either virtue or crime, civilized customs or savagery.”
Quote by Louis Antoine de Saint-Just
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Louis Antoine de Saint-Just
Louis Antoine de Saint-Just was a prominent political leader during the French Revolution, known for his firm revolutionary ideals and radical speeches. He served as a prosecutor at the Revolutionary Tribunal, where he delivered severe judgments against counter-revolutionaries. Saint-Just's political career was brief and controversial, but his ideas and actions had a profound impact on the French Revolution. more