We must not believe that this hate has ceased to exist, but it must cease to work.

The genius of Liberty watches over our frontiers, which are less defended by our troops and our national guards than by the enthusiasm of freedom.

Liberty, since its birth, has been the object of a shameful and secret war, waged against it even in its very cradle.

What is this war?
Three armies of reptiles and venomous insects breed and creep in your own breast: one is composed of paid libellists and hired calumniators, who strive to arm the two powers against each other by inspiring them with mutual distrust; the other army, equally dangerous, is composed of seditious priests, who feel that their God is forsaking them, and that their power is crumbling away with their _prestige_, and who, to retain their empire, term vengeance religion, and crime virtue.

The third is composed of greedy speculators and financiers, who can grow rich only on our ruin: national prosperity would be destruction to their egotistical speculations; and our death would be their life.