But the people will make them, and enforce them, and then there will be an end of the present government.

The moment cannot now be far distant; and it is then that we ought to act in the interests of our august body.

Let us wait.
What hurries us?
Our existence is not in peril.

It has not been rendered absolutely intolerable to us.

The Republic fails in respect and submission to us; it does not give the priests the honours it owes them.
But it lets us live.