To conceive the good, in fact, is not sufficient; it must be made to succeed among men. To accomplish this less pure paths must be followed.

The simplest schoolboy is now familiar with truths for which Archimedes would have sacrificed his life.

A nation is a body of people who have done great things together.

All the great things of humanity have been accomplished in the name of absolute principles.

No idea can succeed except at the expense of sacrifice; no one ever escapes without enduring strain from the struggle of life.

Every rebel is, with us, more or less a soldier who has missed his vocation, a being made for a heroic life ... The European race is a race of masters and soldiers. If you reduce this noble race to the work in a slave's prison like Negroes or Chinamen, it will rebel.

Muslims are the first victims of Islam. Many times I have observed in my travels in the Orient that fanaticism comes from a small number of dangerous men who maintain the others in the practice of religion by terror. To liberate the Muslim from his religion is the best service one can render him.