"Greater power," replied a member of the committee of supervision, "what are you thinking of?
To give you greater power would be limiting those you have already.

Have you forgotten that you are sovereigns?
That the sovereignty of the people is confided to you, and that you are now in full exercise of it ?"] [Footnote 31100: Mehee, 171.] [Footnote 31101: Sicard, 81.

At the beginning the Marseilles men themselves were averse to striking the disarmed, and exclaimed to the crowd: "Here, take our swords and pikes and kill the monsters!"] [Footnote 31102: Macbeth by Shakespeare: "I have supped full with horrors."] [Footnote 31103: Observe children drowning a dog or killing a snake.
Tenacity of life irritates them, as if it were a rebellion against their despotism, the effect of which is to render them only the more violent against their victim.] [Footnote 31104: One may recall to mind the effect of bull-fights, also the irresistible fascination which Saint-Augustin experienced on first hearing the death-cry of a gladiator in the amphitheater.] [Footnote 31105: Mortimer-Ternaux, III.131.Trial of the September actors; the judge's summing up.

"The third and forty-sixth witnesses stated that they saw Monneuse (member of the commune) go to and come from la Force, express his delight at those sad events that had just occurred, acting very immorally in relation thereto, adding that there was violin playing in his presence, and that his colleague danced."-- Sicard, 88.] [Footnote 31106: Sicard, 87, 91.

This expression by a wine-merchant, who wants the custom of the murderers .-- Granier de Cassagnac, II.