Political trials are always vain formalities; for the very passions that produce the accusation also lead to the condemnation. Such is the terrible logic of revolutions.[Les jugements politiques sont presque toujours de vaines formalités, car les mêmes passions qui font accuser font condamner aussi. Telle est la terrible logique des révolutions.]

Source:(ed. Thomas Y. Crowell & Co., 1898), Chapter LXVIII. Whitehall, Page 580
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