Liberty and equality--lovely and sacred words!

Every mission constitutes a pledge of duty. Every man is bound to consecrate his every faculty to its fulfilment. He will derive his rule of action from the profound conviction of that duty.

No nation deserves freedom or can long retain it which does not win it for itself. Revolutions must be made by the people and for the people.

Great revolutions are the work rather of principles than of bayonets, and are achieved first in the moral, and afterwards in the material sphere.

The honor of a country depends much more on removing its faults than on boasting of its qualities.

The epoch of individuality is concluded, and it is the duty of reformers to initiate the epoch of association. Collective man is omnipotent upon the earth he treads.

Without Country you have neither name, token, voice, nor rights, no admission as brothers into the fellowship of the Peoples.

The theory of rights enables us to rise and overthrow obstacles, but not to found a strong and lasting accord between all the elements which compose the nation.

Pardon is the virtue of victory.

Every nation is destined, by the law of God and humanity, to form a free and equal community of brothers.

Insurrection by means of guerrilla bands is the true method of warfare for all nations desirous of emancipating themselves from a foreign yoke. It is invincible, indestructible.

Those who understand the true nature of humanity are always loners

I let no man drag me down so low as to make me hate him.

You only get better by playing.

The beauty of the sunbeam lies partly in the fact that God does not keep it; he gives it away to us all.

When the book comes out it may hurt you - but in order for me to do it, it had to hurt me first. I can only tell you about yourself as much as I can face about myself.

A thing is worth what it can do for you, not what you choose to pay for it.

Songs consecrate to truth and liberty.

I am a very lucky artist in the sense that I have had all my life a lot of opportunities to do what I want to do.

When a child grows up without a father, there is an empty place where someone must stand, providing an example of character and confidence.

But, Sergeant Osbern, Sir, I like my head.