The greatest men of a nation are those it puts to death.

Religion is not a popular error; it is a great instinctive truth, sensed by the people, expressed by the people.

A nation has a soul, a spiritual principle. One is in the past, the other in the present. One is the possession of a rich legacy of memories; the other is the desire to live together and to value the common heritage.

I can die when I wish to: that is my elixir of life.

Communism is in conflict with human nature.

As soon as sacrifice becomes a duty and necessity to mankind. I see no limit to the horizon which opens before him.

Human cruelty took the form of a pact with the deity. A solemn oath was made to kill everything, in which people forbade themselves any display of reason or compassion. A city or a land was devoted to destruction and it was believed an insult to God if one did not observe the abominable oath.