There is no worse heresy than that the office sanctifies the holder of it.

Property is not the sacred right. When a rich man becomes poor it is a misfortune, it is not a moral evil. When a poor man becomes destitute, it is a moral evil, teeming with consequences and injurious to society and morality.

The most certain test by which we judge whether a country is really free is the amount of security enjoyed by minorities.

A convinced man differs from a prejudiced man as an honest man from a liar.

Progress, the religion of those who have none.

Self-preservation and self-denial: the basis of all political economy.

Before God, there is neither Greek nor barbarian, neither rich nor poor, and the slave is as good as his master, for by birth all men are free; they are citizens of the universal commonwealth which embraces all the world, brethren of one family, and children of God.