I am aware of and brave the danger; weakness defers to this, while genius overcomes it I have turned my attention to all the courts of Europe, and am sure that I can force peace on them."-- Robert, an obscure pamphleteer, asks Dumouriez to make him ambassador to Constantinople, while Louvet, the author of "Faublas," declares in his memoirs that liberty perished in 1792, because he was not appointed Minister of Justice.] [Footnote 1128: Moniteur, p.189.Speech by Collot d'Herbois, on the mitraillades at Lyons.

"We too, possess sensibility! The Jacobins have every virtue; they are compassionate, humane, and generous.

These virtues, however, are reserved for patriots, who are their brethren, but never for aristocrats."-- Meillan, "Memoires," p.4.

"Robespierre was one day eulogizing a man named Desfieux, well known for his lack of integrity, and whom he finally sacrificed.

'But, I said to him, your man Desfieux is known to be a rascal.'-- 'No matter,' he replied, 'he is a good patriot.'-- 'But he is a fraudulent bankrupt.'-'He is a good patriot.'-- 'But he is a thief.'-- 'He is a good patriot.' I could not get more than these three words out of him."].