Jacques de Molay

"Quar nous navons volu ne volons le Temple mettre en aucune servitute se non tant come il hy affiert."

"Let evil swiftly befall those who have wrongly condemned us - God will avenge us."

"It is just that, in so terrible a day, and in the last moments of my life, I should discover all the iniquity of falsehood, and make the truth triumph. I declare, then, in the face of heaven and earth, and acknowledge, though to my eternal shame, that I have committed the greatest crimes but it has been the acknowledging of those which have been so foully charged on the order. I attest - and truth obliges me to attest - that it is innocent! I made the contrary declaration only to suspend the excessive pains of torture, and to mollify those who made me endure them. I know the punishments which have been inflicted on all the knights who had the courage to revoke a similar confession; but the dreadful spectacle which is presented to me is not able to make me confirm one lie by another. The life offered me on such infamous terms I abandon without regret."

"Papst Clemens! Ritter Wilhelm von Nogaret! König Philipp! Innerhalb eines Jahres lade ich euch vor das Gericht Gottes, um eure gerechte Strafe zu erhalten! Verflucht! Verflucht! Ihr alle werdet verflucht sein bis ins dreizehnte Glied!"

"Wir wollten den Tempel nicht in einen Dienst stellen, für den er nicht geeignet ist."

"Gott weiß, wer unrecht hat und wer gesündigt hat, und bald wird Unglück über die hereinbrechen, die uns fälschlich verurteilen. Gott wird unseren Tod rächen. Herr wisse, daß in Wahrheit alle, die gegen uns sind, von uns zu leiden haben werden."