The only one who is wiser than anyone is everyone.

When I give a minister an order, I leave it to him to find the means to carry it out.

England is a nation of shopkeepers.

A commander in chief ought to say to himself several times a day: If the enemy should appear on my front, on my right, on my left, what would I do? And if the question finds him uncertain, he is not well placed, he is not as he should be, and he should remedy it.

No amount of money will induce someone to lay down their life, but they will gladly do so for a bit of yellow ribbon.

The poor man commands respect; the beggar must always excite anger.

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.