Their attempts are openly made; either they must tremble before you, or you must tremble before them; you must choose.

Men talk of the profound grief this will cause the king: Brutus immolated his guilty offspring at the shrine of his country, but the heart of Louis XVI.

shall not be put to so severe a trial.

If these princes, alike bad brothers and citizens, refuse to obey, let him turn to the hearts of the French nation, and they will amply repay his losses." (Loud applause.) Pastoret, who spoke after Vergniaud, quoted the saying of Montesquieu, "_There is a time when it is necessary to cast a veil over the statue of Liberty, as we conceal the statues of the Gods_." To be ever on the watch, and to fear nothing, should be the maxim of every free people.

He concluded by proposing repressive, but moderate and gradual measures, against the absentees.
XVII.
Isnard declared that the measures proposed until then were satisfactory to prudence, but not to justice, and the vengeance which an outraged nation owed to itself; and he thus continued:-- "If I am allowed to speak the truth, I shall say, that if we do not punish all these heads of the rebellion, it is not that we do not know, at the bottom of our hearts, that they are guilty, but because they are princes; and, although we have destroyed the nobility and distinctions of blood, these vain phantoms still affect our minds.