Liberty means that a man is recognized as free and treated as free by those who surround him.

The individual who dares commit a crime is guilty in a two-fold sense; first, he is guilty against human conscience, and, above all, he is guilty against the State in arrogating to himself one of its most precious privileges.

Man is only truly free only among equally free men.

We must spread our principles, not with words but with deeds, for this is the most popular, the most potent, and the most irresistible form of propaganda.

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

I bow before the authority of special men because it is imposed upon me by my own reason.

God, or rather the fiction of God, is thus the sanction and the intellectual and moral cause of all the slavery on earth, and the liberty of men will not be complete, unless it will have completely annihilated the inauspicious fiction of a heavenly master.