Brave deeds are the monuments of brave men.

Laws which are consistent in theory often prove chaotic in practice.

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.

From triumph to downfall there is but one step. I have noted that, in the most momentous occasions, mere nothings have always decided the outcome of the greatest events.

A nation recruits men more easily than it can retrieve its honour.

You cannot drag a man's conscience before any tribunal, and no one is answerable for his religious opinions to any power on earth.

France will always be a great nation.