If the bookseller happens to desire a privilege for his merchandise, whether he is selling Rabelais or the Fathers of the Church, the magistrate grants the privilege without answering for the contents of the book. - Voltaire (Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire

Our labour preserves us from three great evils -- weariness, vice, and want.

Mortals are equal; their mask differs.

I am very fond of truth, but not at all of martyrdom.

So it is the human condition that to wish for the greatness of one's fatherland is to wish evil to one's neighbors. The citizen of the universe would be the man who wishes his country never to be either greater or smaller, richer or poorer.

How I like the boldness of the English, how I like the people who say what they think!

If you want to know who controls you, look at who you are not allowed to criticize.