When you write a two thousand page history of the Second World War, the deportations and the concentration camps will take up five pages, and the gas chambers perhaps 20 lines.

O my dear parishioners, let us endeavor to get to heaven! There we shall see God. How happy we shall feel! If the parish is converted we shall go there in procession with the parish priest at the head. . . We must get to heaven! What a pity it would be if some of you were to find yourselves on the other side!

"By analogy, if we were to develop a soccer team, then we would not invite basketball and volleyball players to the try outs. We would invite soccer players to apply."

An ancient dictum says that when Zeus wanted to destroy someone, he would first drive him mad.

You cannot speak on behalf of a nation when you have no mandate to do so.

Im always suspicious of people who repent of other peoples sins.

France was an occupied country, a country that surrendered and was left without the right to choose.