Robert Masello said this quote

Regardless of how black the page, he had always managed to turn it and move on to a new chapter in his life.

~ Robert Masello

If these self-anointed leaders did not keep the people aroused with calls to preserve the Revolution, or to defend it from one imaginary foe after another, then the people might shake themselves awake from the trance they were in and begin to question the very men who had drenched their streets in blood and make France pariah among the civilized nations of the world.

~ Robert Masello