Speech by Boissy d'Anglas, Ventose 3, year II.) "Keep an eye on what you cannot hinder; regulate what you cannot prohibit....

It will not be long before these absurd dogmas, the offspring of fear and error, whose influence on the human mind has been so steadily destructive, will be known only to be despised....

It will not be long before the religion of Socrates, of Marcus Aurelius and Cicero will be the religion of the whole world."] [Footnote 2139: Moniteur, XVI., 646.

(The King's trial.) Speech by Robespierre: "the right of punishing the tyrant and of dethroning him is one and the same thing."-- Speech by Saint-Just: "Royalty is an eternal crime, against which every man has the right of taking up arms...

To reign innocently is impossible!"] [Footnote 2140: Epigraph of Marat's journal: Ute readapt miseries, abet Fortuna superb is.] [Footnote 2141: Buchez et Roux, XXXII., 323.