"Money, money, always money — that is the essence of democracy. Democracy is more expensive than monarchy; it is incom…"

"All my economic ideas as developed over twenty-five years can be summed up in the words: agricultural-industrial fede…"

"All parties without exception, when they seek for power, are varieties of absolutism."

"I stand ready to negotiate, but I want no part of laws: I acknowledge none; I protest against every order with which …"

"I have found more peace in the knowledge of truth than anger in the feeling of oppression, and the most precious frui…"

"The nineteenth century is in my eyes a creative age in which new principles are produced but in which nothing written…"

"I should like to restore with one hand what I destroy with the other. When pruning an old tree one should avoid destr…"

"If we pass from physical nature to the moral world, here we still find ourselves subject to the same deceptions of ap…"

"Justice is not the work of the law: on the contrary, the law is only the declaration and application of what is just …"

"La République est l'organisation par laquelle toutes les opinions, toutes les activités demeurant libres, le Peuple, …"