The tribunes belong to the people, and the people know it.

Place a tribune in the centre of the world, and in a few days, in the four corners of the earth, the Republic will arise.

The tribune shines for the people, and they are not unaware of it.

Sometimes the tribune irritates the people, and makes them foam with rage; sometimes they beat it with their waves, they overflow it even, as on the 15th of May, but then they retire majestically like the ocean, and leave it standing upright like a beacon.

To overthrow the tribune is, on the part of the people, rank folly; it is the proper work of tyrants only.
The people were rising, full of anger, of irritation.