History is indeed little more than the register of the crimes, follies and misfortunes of mankind.
The only thing that saves us from the bureaucracy is inefficiency. An efficient bureaucracy is the greatest threat to liberty.
Be sincere; be brief; be seated.
It felt like they used a baton or something -- it was harder than anyone had ever hit me in the head before.
The first duty of a revolutionary is to get away with it.
What we become depends on what we read after all of the professors have finished with us. The greatest university of all is a collection of books.
A minute's success pays the failure of years.