"Everything will pass, and the world will perish but the Ninth Symphony will remain."

"By striving to do the impossible, man has always achieved what is possible. Those who have cautiously done no more than they believed possible have never taken a single step forward."

"Powerful states can maintain themselves only by crime, little states are virtuous only by weakness."

"Thence results, for science as well as for industry, the necessity of the division and association of labor. I receive and I give - such is human life. Each directs and is directed in his turn."

"To say that any people are not fit for freedom, is to make poverty their choice, and to say they had rather be loaded with taxes than not."

"If liberty and equality, as is thought by some, are chiefly to be found in democracy, they will be best attained when all persons alike share in government to the utmost."

"They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety."

"If the freedom of speech is taken away then dumb and silent we may be led, like sheep to the slaughter."