The tools belong to the man who can use them.

If I had to choose a religion, the sun as the universal giver of life would be my god.

The Jesuits are a MILITARY organization, not a religious order. Their chief is a general of an army, not the mere father abbot of a monastery. And the aim of this organization is power - power in its most despotic exercise - absolute power, universal power, power to control the world by the volition of a single man. Jesuitism is the most absolute of despotisms - and at the same time the greatest and most enormous of abuses.

A man cannot become an atheist merely by wishing it.

Our credulity is a part of the imperfection of our natures. It is inherent in us to desire to generalize, when we ought, on the contrary, to guard ourselves very carefully from this tendency.

Liberty and equality are magical words.

The first virtue in a soldier is endurance of fatigue; courage is only the second virtue.