Man Is Only Truly Free

Even The Most Wretched Individual Of Our Present Society Could Not Exist And Develop Without The Cumulative Social Efforts Of Countless Generations.

I Feel Myself Always The Patriot Of All Oppressed Fatherlands. Nationality Is A Historic, Local Fact Which, Like All Real And Harmless Facts, Has The Right To Claim General Acceptance. Every People, Like Every Person, Is Involuntarily That Which It Is And Therefore Has A Right To Be Itself. Nationality Is Not A Principle; It Is A Legitimate Fact, Just As Individuality Is. Every Nationality, Great Or Small, Has The Incontestable Right To Be Itself, To Live According To Its Own Nature. This Right Is Simply The Corollary Of The General Principal Of Freedom.

Children Do Not Constitute Anyone's Property: They Are Neither The Property Of Their Parents Nor Even Of Society. They Belong Only To Their Own Future Freedom.

When The People Are Being Beaten With A Stick, They Are Not Much Happier If It Is Called "the People's Stick."

Those Mutually Opposed Manifestos Are Written With The Same Eloquence, They Breathe The Same Virtuous Indignation, And One Is Just As Sincere As The Other; That Is To Say Both Of Them Are Equally Brazen In Their Lies, And It Is Only Fools Who Are Deceived By Them. Sensible Persons, All Those Who Have Had Some Political Experience, Do Not Even Take The Trouble Of Reading Such Manifestos.