“God grant that not only the love of liberty but a thorough knowledge of the rights of man may pervade all the nations of the earth, so that a philosopher may set his foot anywhere on its surface and say: This is my country!”

“Ask not what your country can do for you—ask what you can do for your country.”

“Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable.”

“The proletarians have nothing to lose but their chains. They have a world to win.”

“War may sometimes be a necessary evil. But no matter how necessary, it is always an evil, never a good. We will not learn how to live together in peace by killing each other's children.”