Deposed priests are agitating the provinces: ratify the measures requisite to put down their fanaticism.

Paris is uneasy as to its security: sanction the measures which summon a camp of citizens beneath its walls.

Still more delays, and you will be considered as a conspirator and an accomplice.

Just heaven! hast thou stricken kings with blindness?
I know that the language of truth is rarely welcomed at the foot of thrones: I know, too, that it is the withholding the truth from the councils of kings which renders revolutions so often necessary.

As a citizen, and as a minister, I owe the truth to the king, and nothing shall prevent my making it reach his ear.