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But at any given time, in Villages, Towns, and Cities, Landowners, whom fortune favors, should look after their own safety both inside & outside, protect the cottages of the poor, and never be without weapons for the defense of their Fatherland. Who is the Aristocrat who will dare to devise odious plans when they will surely be crushed at once? Where are the bold, who, counting on the disagreements and confusion of circumstances, will dare to attack a Nation always on the defensive; an Empire of twenty-five million men of whom the majority will be armed at all times.
In this way, even during peacetime, Greece in its wisdom always led its soldiers in exercise every day, showing the King of Kings, even in their games, what they were ready to do to defend liberty. THIRD CRY Hasten to chain up the Aristocrats, those atrocious tyrants who earlier attacked our life and what is more than life, our liberty. Chain them up, even if only to protect them from the avenging sword of the People who overthrew them. Justice for Nations arrives slowly but the outbursts of violence are terrible.
These worthless sycophants have shamefully smiled upon the people, to flatter their rage, like the tiger smirks at a lion it could not rip up; but the people did not believe in their smirk; the people could see in the distorted expression of their perfidious joy, only the grimaces of coercion and cowardice. The People know the heart of the Aristocracy, they know it is devoured by pride, miserliness, and jealousy; they know that force alone can make them renounce their awful privileges; they know that their hands would rather ratify