The newspapers are the cemeteries of ideas.

Laws: We know what they are, and what they are worth! They are spider webs for the rich and mighty, steel chains for the poor and weak, fishing nets in the hands of government.

I build no system. I ask an end to privilege, the abolition of slavery, equality of rights, and the reign of law. Justice, nothing else; that is the alpha and omega of my argument: to others I leave the business of governing the world.

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

All my economic ideas as developed over twenty-five years can be summed up in the words: agricultural-industrial federation. All my political ideas boil down to a similar formula: political federation or decentralization.

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

Producer and consumer are always one and the same person, merely considered from two different viewpoints.