If there be one chamber and a king, it is in the king or the chamber.

In the king, if he subjugates the Assembly by force, or if he buys it by corruption; in the chamber if it agitates the public mind, and intimidates the court and the army by the power of its language, and the superiority of its opinions.

Those who do not see this have no eyes.

In this _soidisant_ balance of power there is always a controlling weight; equilibrium is a chimera.

If it did exist, it would produce mere immobility.
VII.
The Constituent Assembly had then done a good work; wise, and as durable as are the institutions of a people in travail, in an age of transition.
The constitution of '91 had written all the truths of the times, and reduced all human reason to its epoch.