I can no longer obey; I have tasted command, and I cannot give it up.

All religions have been made by men.

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.

Great ambition is the passion of a great character. Those endowed with it may perform very good or very bad acts. All depends on the principles which direct them.

A form of government that is not the result of a long sequence of shared experiences, efforts, and endeavors can never take root.

Jesus Chris was more than man.

My star was fading, I felt the reins slipping out of my grasp, and could do nothing to stop it.