"I know them well, the miscreants! I doubt if they will follow any other leader, that is, in great numbers.

The fools looked on this man as a kind of god; they now find that their god is dead.

I doubt whether there is another leader among them, who can induce them to leave their parishes." "If they won't come to us," said Barrere, "we must go to them; they have gone too far now to recede.

Whether they return to their homes, or again take up arms, matters little; they must all be destroyed, for blood alone can establish the Republic on a basis which can never be overturned." "The name of a royalist shall be as horrible in men's ears as that of a parricide," said Santerre.
"But what will you do if you find no army to oppose you ?" said Bourbotte.

"You cannot well fight without an enemy." "Never fear," said Westerman, "your muskets shall not grow rusty for want of use.