Petr Alekseevich Kropotkin: “In reality, the French mind was hostile only to the monastic communism, to the phalanstère of the old schools.”

There is not a single manufacturer or tradesman who, even in the most trifling circumstances, does not do his best to emancipate himself from foreign guardianship.” The best French and English patterns are imitated and improved by a touch…

That so small an area of land can produce so much wealth is nothing short of astonishing.

Italy aspires to go on without foreign produce.

The small bicycle workshops, with the hundreds of small improvements which they introduced, have been under our very eyes the primary cells out of which the great industry of the motor cars, and later on of the aeroplanes, has grown up.