If we have energy, let us show it.

Let those who do not feel courage to rise and beard tyranny refrain from signing our petition: we want no better proof by which to understand each other.

Here it is to our hand." Robespierre next spoke, and demonstrated to the people that Barnave and the Lameths were playing the same game as Mirabeau.

"They concert with our enemies, and then they call us factious!" More timid than Laclos and Danton, he did not give any opinion as to the petition.

A man of calculation rather than of passion, he foresaw that the disorderly movement would split against the organised resistance of the _bourgeoisie_.