[Robespierre was] a great citizen…whose memory the people should bless, because he was the people’s friend, who loved them as a mother loves her children and never ceased to make war on the hungry wolves that batten on their substance.
Because we have insufficient reliable information to state whether there is indeed a conspiracy. But, even if it were imaginary no one doubts that, were the enemy at our gates today, he would find us unprepared; such negligence in providing the capital with war supplies of any kind is a real crime against the state.