"Minister of Justice," said General Foy to an iniquitous Keeper of the Seals, "I condemn you, on leaving this room, to contemplate the statue of L'Hopital."-- There, every cause has been pleaded, as we have said before, bad causes as well as good; the good only have been finally won; there, in the presence of resistance, of denials, of obstacles, those who long for the future, like those who long for the past, have lost all patience; there, it has happened to truth to become violent, and to falsehood to rage; there, all extremes have appeared.

On that tribune the guillotine had its orator, Marat; and the Inquisition its Montalembert.

Terrorism in the name of public safety, terrorism in the name of Rome; gall in the mouths of both, agony in the audience.

When one was speaking, you fancied you saw the gleam of the knife; when the other was speaking, you fancied you heard the crackling of the stake.

There factions have fought, all with determination, a few with glory.