Your friends will lose confidence in you.

The law is my God: I have no other--the public good, that is my worship! You have already struck the emigrants--again a decree against the refractory priests, and you will have gained over ten millions of arms! My decree would be comprised in two words: compel every Frenchman, priest or not, to take the civil oath, and ordain that every man who will not sign shall be deprived of all salary or pension.

Sound policy would decree that every one who does not sign the contract should leave the kingdom.

What proofs against the priest do we require?
If there be but a complaint lodged against the priest by the citizen with whom he lives, let him be at once expelled! As to those against whom the penal code shall pronounce punishment more severe than exile, there is but one sentence left: _Death!_!" X.
This oration, which pushed patriotism even to impiety, and made of the public safety an implacable deity, to which even the innocent were to be sacrificed, excited a frantic enthusiasm in the ranks of the Girondist party, a bitter indignation amongst the moderate party.

"To propose the printing of such a speech," said Lecos, a constitutional bishop, "is to propose the printing of a code of atheism.