Robespierre and Saint-Just had produced the plan of that democracy, whose principles they professed in all their speeches; they wished to change the manners, mind, and customs of France, and to make it a republic after the manner of the ancients; they sought to establish the dominion of the people; to have magistrates free from pride; citizens free from vice; fraternity of intercourse, simplicity of manners, austerity of character, and the worship of virtue. The symbolical words of the sect may be found in the speeches of all the reporters of the committee, and especially in those of Robespierre and Saint-Just. _Liberty and equality_ for the government of the republic; _indivisibility_ for its form; _public safety_ for its defence and preservation; _virtue_ for its principle; _the Supreme Being_ for its religion; as for the citizens, _fraternity_ for their daily intercourse; _probity_ for their conduct; _good sense_ for their mental qualities; _modesty_ for their public actions, which were to have for object the welfare of the state, and not their own: such was the symbol of this democracy. Fanaticism could not go further. The authors of this system did not inquire into its practicability; they thought it just and natural; and having power, they tried to establish it by violence. Not one of these words but served to condemn a party or individuals. The royalists and aristocrats were hunted down in the name of _liberty and equality_; the Girondists in the name of _indivisibility_; Philippeaux, Camille Desmoulins, and the moderate party, in the name of _public safety_; Chaumette, Anacharsis Clootz, Gobet, Hébert, all the anarchical and atheistical party, in the name of _virtue and the Supreme Being_; Chabot, Bazire, Fabre-d'Eglantine, in the name of _probity_; Danton in the name of _virtue and modesty_. In the eyes of fanatics, these _moral crimes_ necessitated their destruction, as much as the conspiracies which they were accused of.