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

“You don't reason with intellectuals. You shoot them.”

“Courage isn't having the strength to go on - it is going on when you don't have strength.”

“Men are more easily governed through their vices than through their virtues.”

“Lead the ideas of your time and they will accompany and support you; fall behind them and they drag you along with them; oppose them and they will overwhelm you.”

“Imagination governs the world.”

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