A genuine man goes to the roots. To be a radical is no more than that: to go to the roots.

Nature has placed the need to see justice done in some souls, and the need to flout and affront it in others.

Like stones rolling down hills, fair ideas reach their objectives despite all obstacles and barriers. It may be possible to speed or hinder them, but impossible to stop them.

Mountains culminate in peaks, and nations in men.

Freedoms, like privileges, prevail or are imperiled together You cannot harm or strive to achieve one without harming or furthering all.

Man has to suffer. When he has no real afflictions, he invents some.

Socialist ideology, like so many others, has two main dangers. One stems from confused and incomplete readings of foreign texts, and the other from the arrogance and hidden rage of those who, in order to climb up in the world, pretend to be frantic defenders of the helpless so as to have shoulders on which to stand.