Can a sans-culotte be reached in that quarter?
Is he not invulnerable, like the gods whom he replaces on this earth ?"--Speech by David, in the Convention, on Barra and Viala: "Under so fine a government woman will bring forth without pain."-- Mercier "Le Nouveau Paris," I.13.

"I heard (an orator) exclaim in one of the sections, to which I bear witness: 'Yes, I would take my own head by the hair, cut it off, and, presenting it to the despot, I would say to him: Tyrant, behold the act of a free man!'"] [Footnote 1256: Now, one hundred years later, I consider the tens of thousands of western intellectuals, who, in their old age, seem unable to understand their longtime fascination with Lenin, Stalin and Mao, I cannot help to think that history might be holding similar future surprises in store for us.

(SR).] [Footnote 1257: And my lifetime, our Jacobins the communists, have including in their register the distortion, the lie and slander as a regular tool of their trade.

(SR).] [Footnote 1258: Lafayette, "Memoires," I.467 (on the Jacobins of August 10, 1792).

"This sect, the destruction of which was desired by nineteen-twentieths of France."-- Durand-Maillan, 49.