If your insurrection succeed, it will be violent: it will be purchased by blood--by the blood of all the loftiest names of Rome.

You will aim at a second expulsion of the Tarquins; but it will be more like a second proscription of Sylla.
Massacres and disorders never pave the way to peace.

If, on the other hand, you fail, the chains of Rome are riveted for ever: an ineffectual struggle to escape is but an excuse for additional tortures to the slave." "And what, then, would the Lord Adrian have us do ?" said Rienzi, with that peculiar and sarcastic smile which has before been noted.

"Shall we wait till the Colonna and Orsini quarrel no more?
shall we ask the Colonna for liberty, and the Orsini for justice?
My Lord, we cannot appeal to the nobles against the nobles.

We must not ask them to moderate their power; we must restore to ourselves that power.