It can alone suffice to its own danger.

What other arm but that of the whole people could stir what it has to stir ?--displace what it has to displace ?--install what it desires to found?
The monarch would break his sceptre into fragments on it.

There must be a lever capable of raising thirty millions of wills--this lever the nation alone possesses.

It is in itself the moving power, the fulcrum and the lever.
X.
We cannot ask of the law to act against the law, of tradition to act against tradition, of established order to act against established order.

It would be to require strength from weakness, life from suicide; and, besides, we should ask in vain of the monarchical power to accomplish these changes, in which very often all perish, and the king foremost.