Would it not have been better, I ask you, if Monk had put the crown on his own head?
Well, if I was fool enough to restore Louis XVIII.

to the throne, like Charles II.

he would have no children, and, like James II., his brother Charles X.would succeed him, and like him would be driven out by some William of Orange.

No, no! God has not put the destiny of this great and glorious country we call France into my hands that I should cast it back to those who have gambled with it and lost it." "Permit me, general, to remark that I did not ask you for all this." "But I, I ask you--" "I think you are doing me the honor to take me for posterity." Bonaparte started, turned round, saw to whom he was speaking, and was silent.
"I only want," said Morgan, with a dignity which surprised the man whom he addressed, "a yes or a no." "And why do you want that ?" "To know whether we must continue to war against you as an enemy, or fall at your feet as a savior." "War," said Bonaparte, "war! Madmen, they who war with me! Do they not see that I am the elect of God ?" "Attila said the same thing." "Yes; but he was the elect of destruction; I, of the new era.

The grass withered where he stepped; the harvest will ripen where I pass the plow.
War?
Tell me what has become of those who have made it against me?
They lie upon the plains of Piedmont, of Lombardy and Cairo!" "You forget the Vendee; the Vendee is still afoot." "Afoot, yes! but her leaders?
Cathelineau, Lescure, La Rochejaquelin, d'Elbee, Bonchamps, Stoffiet, Charette ?" "You are speaking of men only; the men have been mown down, it is true; but the principle is still afoot, and for it are fighting Autichamp, Suzannet, Grignon, Frotte, Chatillon, Cadoudal.