"Legislators and revolutionaries who promise both equality..." - Quote by Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

“I reverence the individual who understands distinctly what he wishes; who unweariedly advances, who knows the means conducive to his object, and can seize and use them.”

“Nature! We live in her midst and know her not. She is incessantly speaking to us, but betrays not her secret. We constantly act upon her, and yet have no power over her. Variant: NATURE! We are surrounded and embraced by her: powerless to separate ourselves from her, and powerless to penetrate beyond her.”

“Nature reacts not only to physical disease, but also to moral weakness; when the danger increases; she gives us greater courage”

“I have always noticed that whenever a radical takes to Imperialism, he catches it in a very acute form.”

“As in private life one differentiates between what a man thinks and says of himself and what he really is and does, so in historical struggles one must still more distinguish the language and the imaginary aspirations of parties from their real organism and their real interests, their conception of themselves from their reality.”

“Liberty doesn't work as well in practice as it does in speeches.”

“The beauty of a democracy is that you never can tell when a youngster is born what he is going to do with himself, and that no matter how humbly he is born, no matter where he is born, no matter what circumstances hamper him at the outset, he has got a chance to master the minds and lead the imaginations of the whole country.”

“And this Nation, for all its hopes and all its boasts, will not be fully free until all its citizens are free.”

“The only stable state is the one in which all men are equal before the law.”