Every man has a right to life, and this means that he has also a right to make a comfortable living.

Liberty requires opportunity to make a living-a living decent according to the standard of the time, a living which gives a man not only enough to live by, but something to live for.

He that would enjoy life and act with freedom must have the work of the day continually before his eyes. Not yesterday's work, lest he fall into despair, nor tomorrow's, lest he become a visionary, nor that which ends with the day, which is a worldly work, nor yet that only which remains to eternity, for by it he cannot shape his actions.

If you're changing the world, you're working on important things. You're excited to get up in the morning.

The free man is a warrior.

It vexes me greatly that having to earn my living has forced me to interrupt the work and to attend to small matters.