It is still easier to surrender forts than to lead soldiers.

Would the selfish and the cowardly ever lack reasons for yielding to the enemy?
"But do you not see that the absolutist courts are provoked at our fortifications ?--a proof that they do not think as you do." You believe that; and, for my part, I believe that in reality they are quite at ease about the matter; and, if they appear to tease our ministers, they do so only to give the latter an opportunity to decline.

The absolutist courts are always on better terms with our constitutional monarchy, than our monarchy with us.

Does not M.Guizot say that France needs to be defended within as well as without?
Within! against whom?
Against France.

O Parisians! it is but six months since you demanded war, and now you want only barricades.