“This [for opposition leaders to claim royal lineage], in a world ruled by a republic, was what revolution had come to mean.”

“Cowards never won heaven. Do not claim that you are begotten of God and you have His royal blood running in your veins unless you can prove your lineage by His heroic spirit: to dare to be holy in spite of men and devils.”

“What mortal claims, by searching to the utmost limit, to have found out the nature of God, or of his opposite, or of that which comes between, seeing as he doth this world of man tossed to and fro by waves of contradiction and strange vicissitudes?”

“The leaders of the future will be those who dare to claim their irrelevance in the contemporary world as a divine vocation...”

“A leader produces results that are out of the question and out of this world,that's how to rule the world.”

“There is nothing which I dread so much as a division of the republic into two great parties, each arranged under its leader, and concerting measures in opposition to each other. This, in my humble apprehension, is to be dreaded as the greatest political evil under our Constitution.”