Happiness is a new idea in Europe.
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Dare! This word contains all the politics of our revolution.
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You who make the laws, the vices and the virtues of the people will be your work.
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In the circumstances in which the Republic finds itself, the constitution cannot be inaugurated; it would destroy itself... The provisional government of France is revolutionary until there is peace.
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It is time that we labored for the happiness of the people. Legislators who are to bring light and order into the world must pursue their course with inexorable tread, fearless and unswerving as the sun.
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Most arts have produced miracles, while the art of government has produced nothing but monsters.
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The French people recognizes the Supreme Being and the immortality of the soul. The first day of every month is to be dedicated to the eternal.
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Every political edict which is not based upon nature is wrong.
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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.
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The vessel of Revolution can arrive at port only on a sea reddened by torrents of blood.
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