I feel myself always the patriot of all oppressed fatherlands. Nationality is a historic, local fact which, like all real and harmless facts, has the right to claim general acceptance. Every people, like every person, is involuntarily that which it is and therefore has a right to be itself. Nationality is not a principle; it is a legitimate fact, just as individuality is. Every nationality, great or small, has the incontestable right to be itself, to live according to its own nature. This right is simply the corollary of the general principal of freedom.

The urge to destroy is a creative urge.

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

Collective property and individual property, these two banners will be the standards under which, from now on, the great battles of the future will be fought.

A divine falsehood is more powerful than any human truth.

By striving to do the impossible, man has always achieved what is possible.

As long as we have a master in heaven, we will be slaves on earth.