"Yes, I am a Jew, and when the ancestors of the right honourable gentleman were brutal savages in an unknown island, mine were priests in the temple of Solomon."

"Most people die with their music still locked up inside them."

"My mind is a continental mind. It is a revolutionary mind."

"The difference of race is one of the reasons why I fear war may always exist; because race implies difference, difference implies superiority, and superiority leads to predominance."

"The most fatal error possible in politics is that of ignoring the spirit of the age."