Death, like the quintessence of otherness, is for others.

I would not speak with disrespect of the Republican Party. I always speak with great respect of the past.

I have always been among those who believed that the greatest freedom of speech was the greatest safety, because if a man is a fool, the best thing to do is to encourage him to advertise the fact by speaking.

Liberty is its own reward.

The natural man inevitably rebels against mathematics, a mild form of torture that could only be learned by painful processes of drill.

Only a peace between equals can last. Only a peace the very principle of which is equality and a common participation in a common benefit.

I want the people to love me, but I suppose they never will.