They wanted me to be a Washington.

Medicines are only fit for old people.

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.

It is often in the audacity, in the steadfastness, of the general that the safety and the conservation of his men is found.

A man occupied with public or other important business cannot, and need not, attend to spelling.

Those who have changed the universe have never done it by changing officials, but always by inspiring the people.

Men take only their needs into consideration - never their abilities.