I always loved you, and if one loves anyone, one loves the whole person, just as they are and not as one would like them to be. -Dolly

In difficult circumstances always act on first impressions.

When politics and home life have become one and the same thing, [...] then,[...] it is evident that we will be in a state of total liberty or anarchy.

The time is fast approaching when to call a man a patriot will be the deepest insult you can offer him. Patriotism now means advocating plunder in the interest of the privileged classes of the particular State system into which we have happened to be born.

Reason unites us, not only with our contemporaries, but with men who lived two thousand years before us, and with those who will live after us.

Are we not all flung into the world for no other purpose than to hate each other, and so to torture ourselves and one another?

Without the support from religion--remember, we talked about it--no father, using only his own resources, would be able to bring up a child.