You have killed us civilly--we kill you physically." Accordingly, from this point of view, all riots are legitimate.
Robespierre from the rostrum[1107] excuses jacqueries, refuses to call castle-burners brigands, and justifies the insurgents of Soissons, Nancy, Avignon, and the colonies.

Desmoulins, alluding to two men hung at Douai, states that it was done by the people and soldiers combined, and declares that: "Henceforth,--I have no hesitation in saying it--they have legitimated the insurrection;" they were guilty, and it was well to hang them.[1108] Not only do the party leaders excuse assassinations, but they provoke them.

Desmoulins, "attorney-general of the Lantern, insists on each of the 83 departments being threatened with at least one lamppost hanging." (This sobriquet is bestowed on Desmoulins on account of his advocacy of street executions, the victims of revolutionary passions being often hung at the nearest lanterne, or street lamp, at that time in Paris suspended across the street by ropes or chains .-- (Tr.)) Meanwhile Marat, in the name of principle, constantly sounds the alarm in his journal: "When public safety is in peril, the people must take power out of the hands of those whom it is entrusted...

Put that Austrian woman and her brother-in-law in prison...

Seize the ministers and their clerks and put them in irons...