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History of the Girondists, Volume I

BOOK XVI
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The people is there to judge its enemies: let them choose between Coblentz and ourselves; let them purge the land of their enemies--the tyrants; you know them.

The king is not with you: we need no other proof of it than the dismissal of the patriot ministers and the inaction of the armies.

Is not the head of the people worth that of kings?
Must the blood of patriots flow with impunity to satisfy the pride and ambition of the perfidious chateau of the Tuileries?
If the king does not act, suspend him from his functions: one man cannot fetter the will of twenty-five millions of men.

If through respect we suffer him to retain the throne, it is on condition that he observe the constitution.

If he depart from this he is no longer anything.


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