Where some states possess an army, the Prussian Army possesses a state.

Dare to think for yourself.

Those who can be made to believe absurdities can be made to commit atrocities.

I should like to know which is worse: to be ravished a hundred times by pirates, and have a buttock cut off, and run the gauntlet of the Bulgarians, and be flogged and hanged in an auto-da-fe, and be dissected, and have to row in a galley -- in short, to undergo all the miseries we have each of us suffered -- or simply to sit here and do nothing?' That is a hard question,' said Candide.

Virtuous men alone possess friends.

The sovereign is called a tyrant who knows no laws but his caprice.

History is only the register of crimes and misfortunes.