Powerful states can maintain themselves only by crime, little states are virtuous only by weakness.

Everything will pass, and the world will perish but the Ninth Symphony will remain.

When the people are being beaten with a stick, they are not much happier if it is called "the People's Stick."

There are but three ways for the populace to escape its wretched lot. The first two are by the routes of the wine-shop or the church; the third is by that of the social revolution.

The right to unite freely and to separate freely is the first and most important of all political rights.

If God existed, only in one way could he serve the cause of human liberty-by ceasing to exist.

People go to church for the same reasons they go to a tavern: to stupefy themselves, to forget their misery, to imagine themselves, for a few minutes anyway, free and happy.