But if it even were true that I had made ministers, how long has it been a crime to have confided the interests of the people to the hands of the people?
This minister is about, it is said, to distribute all his favours to the Jacobins! Ah! would to heaven that all the places were filled by Jacobins!" At these words Camille Desmoulins, Brissot's enemy, concealed in the chamber, bowing towards his neighbour, said aloud with a sneering laugh, "What a cunning rogue! Cicero and Demosthenes never uttered more eloquent insinuations." Cries of angry feeling burst from the ranks of Brissot's friends, who clamoured for Camille Desmoulins' expulsion.

A censor of the chamber declared that the remarks of the pamphleteer were disgraceful, and order was restored.

Brissot proceeded.

"Denunciation is the weapon of the people: I do not complain of this.

Do you know who are its bitterest enemies?
Those who prostitute denunciation.