The voice is nothing without the reverberation that multiplies its echo.

Malouet, deserted by his party, left by Barnave who listened with dismay, only spoke from his conscience; he fought no longer for victory, he only struggled for principle.

Thus did he speak .-- "It is proposed to you to determine the epoch, and the conditions of the use of a new constituent power; it is proposed to you to undergo twenty-five years of disorder and anarchy before you have the right to amend.

Remark, in the first place, under what circumstances it is proposed to you to impose silence on the appeals of the nation as to the new laws; it is when you have not as yet heard the opinion of those whose instincts and passions these new laws favour, when all contending passions are subdued by terror or by force; it is when France is no longer expounded but through the organ of her clubs.

When it has been a question of suspending the exercise of the royal authority itself, what has been the language addressed to you from this tribune?
You have been told '_we should have begun the Revolution from thence; but we were not aware of our strength_.' Thus it only remains for your successors to measure their strength in order to attempt fresh enterprises.