In a revolution, as in a novel, the most difficult part to invent is the end.

We succeed in enterprises which demand the positive qualities we possess, but we excel in those which can also make use of our defects.

As for me, I am deeply a democrat; this is why I am in no way a socialist. Democracy and socialism cannot go together. You can't have it both ways. Socialism is a new form of slavery.

I am far from denying that newspapers in democratic countries lead citizens to do very ill-considered things in common; but without newspapers there would be hardly any common action at all. So they mend many more ills than they cause.

The Indian knew how to live without wants, to suffer without complaint, and to die singing.

As one digs deeper into the national character of the Americans, one sees that they have sought the value of everything in this world only in the answer to this single question: how much money will it bring in?

Grant me thirty years of equal division of inheritances and a free press, and I will provide you with a republic.