Letter of Madame Roland to Bosc, July 26, 1798.

"You busy yourselves with a municipality and allow heads to escape which will devise new horrors.
You are mere children; your enthusiasm is merely a straw bonfire! If the National Assembly does not try two illustrious heads in regular form or some generous Decius strike them down, you are all lost.--" Ibid.,, May 17, 1790: "Our rural districts are much dissatisfied with the decree on feudal privileges...

A reform is necessary, in which more chateaux must be burnt.

It would not be a serious evil were there not some danger of the enemies of the Revolution profiting by these discontents to lessen the confidence of the people in the National Assembly."-- Sept.

27, 1790.
"The worst party is successful; it is forgotten that insurrection is the most sacred of duties when the country is in danger."-- Jan.24, 1791.
"The wise man shuts his eyes to the grievances or weaknesses of the private individual; but the citizen should show no mercy, even to his father, when the public welfare is at stake."] [Footnote 3292: "Archives Nationales," F7, 3202.