Champagne! In victory, one deserves it; in defeat one needs it.

Power is my mistress. I have worked too hard at her conquest to allow anyone to take her away from me.

Ambition never is in a greater hurry that I; it merely keeps pace with circumstances and with my general way of thinking.

Mankind are in the end always governed by superiority of intellectual faculties, and none are more sensible of this than the military profession. When, on my return from Italy, I assumed the dress of the Institute, and associated with men of science, I knew what I was doing: I was sure of not being misunderstood by the lowest drummer boy in the army.

Imagination rules the world.

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.

You must not fight too often with one enemy, or you will teach him all your art of war.