He who tampers with the currency robs labour of its bread.

Never exceed your rights, and they will soon become unlimited.

Getting people to like you is merely the other side of liking them.

The more you read about politics, the more you got to admit that each party is worse than the other.

In all intellectual debates, both sides tend to be correct in what they affirm, and wrong in what they deny.

We cannot think of being acceptable to others until we have first proven acceptable to ourselves.

The rights of every man are diminished when the rights of one man are threatened.

You only have to do a very few things right in your life so long as you don't do too many things wrong.

Capitalists are no more capable of self-sacrifice than a man is capable of lifting himself up by his own bootstraps.

The defence of our rights and our dignity, as well as efforts never to let ourselves to be overcome by the feeling of hatred - this is the road we have chosen.

Wise men say nothing in dangerous times.

He who talks more is sooner exhausted.

The seed of revolution is repression.

A disordered currency is one of the greatest political evils.

A conservative is a man who sits and thinks, mostly sits.

It is not because men's desires are strong that they act ill; it is because their consciences are weak.

Let them call me a rebel and welcome. I feel no concern from it. But should I suffer the misery of devils, were I to make a whore of my soul.

The best way to keep one's word is not to give it.

The paradox of courage is that a man must be a little careless of his life even in order to keep it.

Those who are too smart to engage in politics are punished by being governed by those who are dumber.

Give to every other human being every right that you claim for yourself - that is my doctrine.