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

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

In every State, the government is nothing but a permanent conspiracy on the part of the minority against the majority, which it enslaves and fleeces.

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.

Where the state begins, individual liberty ceases, and vice versa.

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

But I recognize no infallible authority, even in special questions; consequently, whatever respect I may have for the honesty and the sincerity of such or such an individual, I have no absolute faith in any person.