Democracy is nothing but the Tyranny of Majorities, the most abominable tyranny of all, for it is not based on the authority of a religion, not upon the nobility of a race, not on the merits of talents and of riches. It merely rests upon numbers and hides behind the name of the people.

Of my private life I have nothing to say: it does not concern others. I have always had little liking for autobiographies and have no interest in anyone's affairs. History proper and novels hold no attractions for me except insofar as, I can discern there, as within our immortal Revolution, the adventures of the mind.

AXIOM. — Property is the Right of Increase claimed by the Proprietor over any thing which he has stamped as his own.

To name a thing is easy: the difficulty is to discern it before its appearance.

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

it is the liberty that is the mother, not the daughter, of order.

If one were to ask. . ."What is slavery?" and I should answer in one word, "murder," my meaning would be understood at once. Why, then, to this other question: "What is property?" may I not likewise answer, "theft". . .?