Think about the world you want to live and work in. What do you need to know to build the world? Demand that your teachers teach you that.

I understand regicide as a means of obtaining vengeance for the ruin of our lives, but regicide as a means of obtaining political freedom I could never understand.

War is the usual condition of Europe. A thirty years' supply of causes of war is always on hand.

The future cannot be legislated. All that can be done is to anticipate its most important movements and to clear the path for them.

Men passionately desire to live after death, but they often pass away without noticing the fact that the memory of a really good person always lives. It is impressed upon the next generation, and is transmitted again to the children. Is that not an immortality worth striving for?

War is the usual condition of Europe.

America is just the country that shows how all the written guarantees in the world for freedom are no protection against tyranny and oppression of the worst kind. There the politician has come to be looked upon as the very scum of society.