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History of the Girondists, Volume I

BOOK VI
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Ah! it is time that this great level of equality, which has passed over France, should at length take its full effect.

Then only will they believe in our equality.

You should fear by this evidence of impunity that you may urge the people to excesses.

The anger of the people is but too often the sequel to the silence of the laws.

The law should enter the palaces of the great, as well as in the hovel of the poor, and as inexorable as death, when it falls upon the guilty, should make no distinction between ranks and titles.


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