I cannot believe there is a god who punishes and rewards, for I see honest folk unlucky, and rogues unlucky.

Alexander, Charlemagne and myself all tried to found an empire on force and we failed. Jesus Christ is building an empire on love, and today there are millions of people who would gladly die for His sake.

In war, the moral is to the physical as three is to one.

The World is not ruined by the wickedness of the wicked, but by the weakness of the good.

It's the unconquerable soul of man, and not the nature of the weapon he uses, that ensures victory

One is more certain to influence men, to produce more effect on them, by absurdities than by sensible ideas.

If you (to General Bertrand) do not perceive that Jesus Christ is God, very well; then I did wrong to make you a general.