As soon as I set foot in the parliamentary Sinai, I ceased to be in touch with the masses.

A common danger tends to concord. Communism is the exploitation of the strong by the weak. In Communism, inequality comes from placing mediocrity on a level with excellence.

When deeds speak, words are nothing.

We want property, but property restored to its proper limits, that is to say, free distribution of the products of labour, property minus usury!

To be governed is, under pretext of public utility and in the name of the general interest, to be laid under contribution, drilled, fleeced, exploited, monopolized, extorted from, exhausted, hoaxed and robbed; then, upon the slightest resistance, at the first word of complaint, to be repressed, fined, vilified, annoyed, hunted down, pulled about, beaten, disarmed, bound, imprisoned, shot, judged, condemned, banished, sacrificed, sold, betrayed, and, to crown all, ridiculed, derided, outraged, dishonored.

Whoever lays his hand on me to govern me is a usurper and tyrant, and I declare him my enemy.

All men in their hearts, I say, bear witness to these truths; they need only to be made to understand it.