A Quote by Louis Antoine de Saint-Just

In every Revolution a dictator is needed to save the state by force, or censors to save it by virtue.

Louis Antoine de Saint-Just

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Dictator Every Force Needed Revolution Save State Virtue

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Louis Antoine de Saint-Just
French - Politician
August 25, 1767 - July 28, 1794

You save an old man and you save a unit; but save a boy, and you save a multiplication table.

Rodney "Gipsy" Smith

In your dread of dictators you established a state of society in which every ward boss is a dictator, every private employer a dictator, every financier a dictator, all with the livelihood of the workers at his mercy, and no public responsibility.

George Bernard Shaw

Save the trees, save the bees, save the whales, save those snails.

George Carlin

Man gives every reason for his conduct save one, every excuse for his crimes save one, every plea for his safety save one; and that one is his cowardice

George Bernard Shaw

You have to save the habitat, you have to save the population - not individual animals. What you want to save is the foundation, the basic infrastructure from which resources are produced. You can't save Fifi and Boo-Boo and Thumper.

Ted Nugent

My top goal as your Secretary of State is to save lives by reducing fatal traffic crashes. When I established the Teen Driver Safety Task Force, the goal was to improve Illinois' graduated driver licensing law and, even more importantly, to save lives.

Jesse White

I created a character whose motives were pure and good and she was going to go out and save the whole world. But the truth is, you can't save the whole world, but you can save one. And that was the whole thrust of the novel - to save just one.

Lurlene McDaniel

Obama had to save the banks, sure, but he didn't have to save the bankers and the shareholders and the bondholders. We broke the rules of capitalism in order to save those at the top - as we always do.

Joseph Stiglitz

Save time, save money, save the environment. Forget the environment, save yourself.

Vince Offer

My paramount object in this struggle is to save the Union, and is not either to save or to destroy slavery. If I could save the Union without freeing any slave I would do it, and if I could save it by freeing all the slaves I would do it; and if I could save it by freeing some and leaving others alone I would also do that. What I do about slavery, and the colored race, I do because I believe it helps to save the Union; and what I forbear, I forbear because I do not believe it would help to save the Union.

Abraham Lincoln

If I could save time in a bottle The first thing that I'd like to do Is to save every day

Jim Croce

Be the best Guardian you can be. Save lots of people. And every time you save someone, think of me.” -Maddy

Scott Speer

My paramount object in this struggle is to save the Union, and is not either to save or to destroy slavery. If I could save the Union without freeing any slave, I would do it; and if I could save it by freeing some and leaving others alone, I would also do that.

Abraham Lincoln

We all think Al Gore invented email so we could save time and save paper, to save trees. And that includes phone trees.