Every provisional political set-up following a revolution requires a dictatorship, and an energetic dictatorship at that.

Be aware that the reward for labour, and quantity of labour, are quite disparate things.

Although gold and silver are not by nature money, money is by nature gold and silver.

The leading princes are the most servile tools of English despotism. . . . The native princes are the stronghold of the present abominable English system.

The English Established Church... will more readily pardon an attack on 38 of its 39 articles than on 1/39 of its income.

The entire so-called history of the world is nothing but the creation of man through human labor.

On a level plain, simple mounds look like hills; and the insipid flatness of our present bourgeoisie is to be measured by the altitude of its great intellects.