Free trade favors all classes, excites all imaginations, and rouses the whole population; it is identical with equality, and tends naturally to independence.

France, the army, Josephine...

Frenchmen know not how to conspire.

Four hostile newspapers are more to be feared than a thousand bayonets.

I am a Socialist not through reading a textbook that has caught my intellectual fancy, nor through unthinking tradition, but because I believe that, at its bes…

A nation's strength ultimately consists in what it can do on its own, and not in what it can borrow from others.

Don't see it as supporting their economy, but as burning their crops.