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History of the Girondists, Volume I

BOOK IV
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All becomes calm, and the horizon is cleared.

Thus after a revolution, the constitution, if it be good, rallies all its citizens.

There should not be one man in the kingdom who incurs danger of his life in expressing his free views of the constitution.

Without this security there is no free will, no expression of opinion, no liberty; there will be only a predominant power, a tyranny popular or otherwise, until you have separated the constitution from the workings of the revolution.

Behold all these principles of justice, morality, and liberty which you have laid down, hailed with joy, and oaths renewed, but violated immediately with unprecedented audacity and rage.


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