Have you ever known in the royalist ranks a colonel who was not a noble?
Did you ever hear of any man rising by his merits into that class of people?
Whereas with me, Georges, you can attain to what you will.

The higher I raise myself, the higher I shall raise those who surround me.

As for seeing me play the part of Monk, dismiss that from your mind.

Monk lived in an age in which the prejudices we fought and overthrew in 1789 were in full force.

Had Monk wished to make himself king, he could not have done so.