Louis Antoine de Saint-Just Quotes
Citizens, by what illusion could one persuade himself that you are inhuman. Your Revolutionary Tribunal has condemned three hundred rascals to death in a year. Has not the Spanish Inquisition done worse than that ... Have the English assizes butchered no one in that period? ... What of the kings of Europe, does anyone prate to them of pity? Ah, do not allow yourselves to grow soft-hearted!
France was coming under great criticism from the rest of Europe for the bloodbath of executions that the Revolution had become. Many French thought that perhaps they were executing too many people. Saint-Just urged them to hold the course and they did.
Louis Antoine de Saint-Just, 1767–1794, French Revolutionary Leader, Speech to the National Convention. February 26, 1794
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Howe had written Franklin attempting to stave off a American break with England. Franklin, with the approval of the Continental Congress, replied.
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Tens of thousands of Iranians were.
“Catiff” is a Middle English term to describe a lowly, despicable person.
Louis Antoine Léon de Saint-Just was a Jacobin leader during the French Revolution. He was a close friend of Maximilien Robespierre and served as his most trusted ally during the period of Jacobin rule (1793–94) in the French First Republic. Saint-Just worked as a legislator and a military commissar, but he achieved a lasting reputation as the face of the Reign of Terror. He publicly delivered the condemnatory reports that emanated from Robespierre and the Committee of Public Safety and defended the use of violence against opponents of the government. He supervised the arrests of some of the most famous figures of the Revolution and saw many of them off to the guillotine. For his unyielding severity, later writers dubbed him the "Angel of Death".
