"Brothers and friends," said Dumouriez, "every instant of my life shall be devoted to carrying out the wishes of the people, and to justifying the king's choice.

I will employ in all negotiations the force of a free people, and before long these negotiations will produce a lasting peace or a decisive war.

(Applause.) If we have this war I will abandon my political post, and I will assume my rank in the army to triumph, or perish a free man with my brethren.

A heavy weight presses on me, aid me to bear it; I require your counsels, transmit them to me through your journals.

Tell me truth, even the most unpalatable; but repel calumny, and do not repulse a citizen whom you know to be sincere and intrepid, and who devotes himself to the cause of the Revolution and the nation." The president replied to the minister that the society gloried in counting him amongst its brethren.