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

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.

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

To have common glories in the past, a common will in the present; to have done great things together, to will to do the like again, — such are the essential conditions for the making of a people.

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

The virtue of man is, in a word, the great proof of God.

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