Voltaire Quotes About Politics
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The perfect is the enemy of the good.
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He must be very ignorant for he answers every question he is asked.
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It is not enough to conquer; one must learn to seduce.
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So long as the people do not care to exercise their freedom, those who wish to tyrannize will do so; for tyrants are active and ardent, and will devote themselves in the name of any number of gods, religious and otherwise, to put shackles upon sleeping men.
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The public is a ferocious beast; one must either chain it or flee from it.
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It is dangerous to be right in matters where established men are wrong.
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The best government is a benevolent tyranny tempered by an occasional assassination.
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Opinion has caused more trouble on this little earth than plagues or earthquakes.
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We cannot always oblige; but we can always speak obligingly.
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