But why should not the Head of the Church do as Pius V., who sent his sailors with the Spaniards and Venetians to the battle of Lepanto?
Why should you not detach a regiment or two to Algeria?
France would, perhaps, give them a place in her army; they might join us in advancing the holy cause of civilization.

Rest assured that when those troops returned, after five or six campaigns, to the more modest duty of preserving the public peace, everybody would obey them courteously.

Vulgar footmen would no longer dare to make use of such expressions as one I heard yesterday evening at the door of a theatre,--'Stick to your soldiering, and leave servant's work to me!' They who despise them now, would be proud to show them respect; for nations have a tendency to admire themselves in the persons of their armies." "For how long ?" "For ever.

Acquired glory is a capital which can never be exhausted.

And these regiments would never lose the spirit of honour and discipline which they would bring back from the seat of war.