Never has any one been less a priest than Jesus, never a greater enemy of forms, which stifle religion under the pretext of protecting it. By this we are all his disciples and his successors; by this he has laid the eternal foundation-stone of true religion; and if religion is essential to humanity, he has by this deserved the Divine rank the world has accorded him.

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.

When people complain of life, it is almost always because they have asked impossible things of it.

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

The ignorance of French society gives one a rough sense of the infinite.

Muslims are the first victims of Islam. To liberate a Muslim from his religion is the best service that one can render him!

The talent of historians lies in their creating a true ensemble out of facts which are but half true.