The freedom of all is essential to my freedom.

Even the most wretched individual of our present society could not exist and develop without the cumulative social efforts of countless generations.

I am conscious of my inability to grasp, in all its details and positive developments, any very large portion of human knowledge.

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.

Does it follow that I reject all authority? Perish the thought. In the matter of boots, I defer to the authority of the boot-maker.

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

Every people, like every person, . . . has a right to be itself.