The art of government is to make two-thirds of a nation pay all it possibly can pay for the benefit of the other third.

Let us meet four times a year in a grand temple with music, and thank God for all his gifts. There is one sun. There is one God. Let us have one religion. Then all mankind will be brethren.

Democracy is just a filler for textbooks! Do you actually believe that public opinion influences the government?

Give me a few minutes to talk away my face and I can seduce the Queen of France.

It has taken seas of blood to drown the idol of despotism, but the English do not think they bought their laws too dearly.

I cannot imagine how the clockwork of the universe can exist without a clockmaker.

The true character of liberty is independence, maintained by force.