Men do not desire merely to be rich, but to be richer than other men

What distinguishes the majority of men from the few is their inability to act according to their beliefs.

Men might as well be imprisoned, as excluded from the means of earning their bread.

Whatever crushes individuality is despotism, by whatever name it may be called and whether it professes to be enforcing the will of God or the injunctions of men.

The dictum that truth always triumphs over persecution is one of the pleasant falsehoods which men repeat after one another till they pass into commonplaces, but which all experience refutes.

A man who has nothing for which he is willing to fight, nothing which is more important than his own personal safety, is a miserable creature and has no chance of being free unless made and kept so by the exertions of better men than himself.