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.

The secret of great battles consists in knowing how to deploy and concentrate at the right time.

What a solace Christianity must be to one who has an undoubted conviction of its truth!

A celebrated people lose dignity upon a closer view.

To make yourself understood to people, one must first speak to their eyes

In politics nothing is immutable. Events carry within them an invincible power.

More glorious to merit a sceptre than to possess one.