Speech by Laignelot.) "Robespierre had all the popular clubs under his thumb."] [Footnote 31123: Garat, 85.

"The most conspicuous sentiment with Robespierre, and one, indeed, of which he made no mystery, was that the defender of the people could never see amiss."-- (Bailleul, quoted in Carnot's Memoirs, I.516.) "He regarded himself as a privileged being, destined to become the people's regenerator and instructor."] [Footnote 31124: Speech of May 16, 1794, and of Thermidor 8, year II.] [Footnote 31125: Buchez et Roux, X., 295, 296.

(Session June 22, 1791, of the Jacobin Club.)--Ibid., 294 .-- Marat spoke in the same vein: "I have made myself a curse for all good people in France." He writes, the same date: "Writers in behalf of the people will be dragged to dungeons.
'The friend of the people,' whose last sigh is given for his country, and whose faithful voice still summons you to freedom, is to find his grave in a fiery furnace." The last expression shows the difference in their imaginations.] [Footnote 31126: Hamel, II., 122.

(Meeting of the Jacobin Club, Feb.10, 1792.) "To obtain death at the hands of tyrants is not enough--one must deserve death.

If it be true that the earliest defenders of liberty became its martyrs they should not suffer death without bearing tyranny along with them into the grave."-- Cf., ibid., II., 215.