Society cannot exist without inequality of fortunes and the inequality of fortunes could not subsist without religion. Whenever a half-starved person is near another who is glutted, it is impossible to reconcile the difference if there is not an authority who tells him to.

Oh Man, Man. How despicable in slavery, how great when fired with the love of freedom!

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.

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

To a father who loves his children victor has no charms. When the heart speaks, glory itself is an illusion.

A nation recruits men more easily than it can retrieve its honour.

Malice delights to blacken the characters of prominent men.