it is the liberty that is the mother, not the daughter, of order.
I do not wish to be either governor nor governed!
The newspapers are the cemeteries of ideas.
It is a proof of philosophical mediocrity, today, to look for a philosophy.
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.
As soon as I set foot in the parliamentary Sinai, I ceased to be in touch with the masses.