It is sufficient to be pointed out as an aristocrat to be without any security.

If our peasants, in general, have shown more honesty, consideration, and attachment toward us, every bourgeois of importance, the wild members of clubs, the vilest of men who sully a uniform, consider themselves privileged to insult us, and these wretches go unpunished and are protected! Even our religion is not free.

One of our number has had his house sacked for having shown hospitality to an old cure of eighty belonging to his parish who refused to take the oath.

Such is our fate.

We are not so base as to endure it.
Our right to resist oppression is not due to a decree of the National Assembly, but to natural law.