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.

All the great captains have performed vast achievements by conforming with the rules of art--by adjusting efforts to obstacles.

Soldiers generally win battles; generals get credit for them.

Do you know what astonished me the most in this world? The inability of force to create anything.

All the women in the world would not make me lose an hour.

History is written by the winners.

There is no such thing as an accident, only a failure to recognise the hand of fate