In existing States a fresh law is looked upon as a remedy for evil. Instead of themselves altering what is bad, people begin by demanding a law to alter it.

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.

Revolutions, we must remember, are always made by minorities.

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

The hopeless don't revolt, because revolution is an act of hope.

The moral sense is a natural faculty in us like the sense of smell or of touch.

A national movement, which does not include in its platform the demand for an economical change advantageous to the masses has no chance of success unless supported by foreign aid.