The essence of the free press is the reliable, reasonable and moral nature of freedom.

The writer may very well serve a movement of history as its mouthpiece, but he cannot of course create it.

The country that is more developed industrially only shows, to the less developed, the image of its own future.

The development of civilization and industry in general has always shown itself so active in the destruction of forests that everything that has been done for their conservation and production is completely insignificant in comparison.

Greek philosophy seems to have met with something with which a good tragedy is not supposed to meet, namely, a dull ending.

...the very cannibalism of the counterrevolution will convince the nations that there is only one way in which the murderous death agonies of the old society and the bloody birth throes of the new society can be shortened, simplified and concentrated, and that way is revolutionary terror.

English law in 1572 decreed that beggars above 14 years of age are to be severely flogged and branded on the left ear unless some one will take them into service for two years; in case of a repetition of the offense, if they are over 18, they are to be executed, unless some one will take them into service for two years; but for the third offence they are to be executed without mercy as felons.