"If they can bear to live among us Christians and Jews, then they should be forced to work like women in childbirth."

"Peasants are no better than pigs."

"I would have been a saint if I had remained in the monastery, but I was forced to become a devil."

"Where the battle rages, there the loyalty of the soldier is proved."

"You owe nothing to God except faith and confession. In all other things He lets you do whatever you like. You may do as you please, without any danger of conscience whatsoever."