“Laissez faire (in its full true meaning) opens the way to the realization of the noble dreams of socialism.”

“Let no man imagine that he has no influence. Whoever he may be, and wherever he may be placed, the man who thinks becomes a light and a power.”

“He who sees the truth, let him proclaim it, without asking who is for it or who is against it.”

“Capital is a result of labor and is used by labor to assist it in further production. Labor is the active and initial force and labor is therefore the employer of capital.”

“There is danger in reckless change but greater danger in blind conservatism.”

“The state it cannot too often be repeated does nothing and can give nothing which it does not take from somebody.”

“Yes, a war is inevitable. Firstly, there's you fellows who can't be trusted. And then there's the multitude who mean to have bathrooms and white enamel. Millions of them; all over the world. Not me...”

“Well-being is attained little by little, and nevertheless is no little thing itself.”

“Be not the first by whom the new is tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside, is a safe rule for those who would always retain the good opinion of that all-powerful, but somewhat unintelligent,...”