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When human statecraft attaches a chain to the feet of a free man, whom it makes a slave in contempt of nature and citizenship, eternal justice rivets the other end about the tyrant's neck.

Louis Antoine de Saint-Just

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Louis Antoine de Saint-Just
Age: 26 †
Born: 1767
Born: August 25
Died: 1794
Died: July 28
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