"Collection of authentic documents for the History of the Revolution at Strasbourg," II.

210 (speech by Baudot, Frimaire 19, year II., in the Jacobin club at Strasbourg).

"Egoists, the heedless, the enemies of liberty, the enemies of all nature should not be regarded as her children.

Are not all who oppose the public good, or who do not share it, in the same case?
Let us, then, utterly destroy them...

Were they a million, would not one sacrifice the twenty-fourth part of one's self to get rid of a gangrene which might infect the rest of the body ?..."For these reasons, the orator thinks that every man who is not wholly devoted to the Republic must be put to death.