“If I had to choose a religion, the sun as the universal giver of life would be my god.”

“As for me, to love you alone, to make you happy, to do nothing which would contradict your wishes, this is my destiny and the meaning of my life.”

“Religion is excellent stuff for keeping common people quiet. Religion is what keeps the poor from murdering the rich.”

“Religion is what keeps the poor from murdering the rich.”

“You don't govern men who don't have religion, you shoot them.”

“A commander in chief ought to say to himself several times a day: If the enemy should appear on my front, on my right, on my left, what would I do? And if the question finds him uncertain, he is not well placed, he is not as he should be, and he should remedy it.”

“I make my battle plans from the spirit of my sleeping soldiers”