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Billaud-Varenne [looking at Saint-Just fiercely]. The Republic will never be free until her dictators have disappeared.
Saint-Just [looking straight at Vadier and Billaud-Varenne]. The Republic will never be pure until the vultures are no more.
Vadier [banteringly]. The Republic will never be free or pure until the Republic is no more!
Saint-Just. Ideas do not need men. Peoples pass away in order that God may live.
