All men have equal rights to liberty, to their property, and to the protection of the laws. |
I detest what you write, but I would give my life to make it possible for you to continue to write. |
In general, the art of government
consists in taking as much money as possible
from one party of the citizens to give to the other. |
It is better to risk saving a guilty man than to condemn an innocent one. |
It is clear that the individual who persecutes a man, his brother, because he is not of the same opinion, is a monster. |
It is dangerous to be right in matters on which the established authorities are wrong. |
It is difficult to free fools from the chains they revere. |
It is the characteristic of the most stringent censorships, that they give credibility to the opinions they attack. |
Prejudices are what fools use for reason. |
The art of government consists of taking as much money as possible from one party of citizens to give to the other. |
The instruction we find in books is like fire. We fetch it from our neighbors, kindle it at home, communicate it to others, and it becomes the property of all. |
The monster, fanaticism, still exists, and whoever seeks after truth will run the risk of being persecuted. |
The tyranny of the many would be when one body takes over the rights of others, and then exercises its power to change the laws in its favor. |
Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities. |
Those who can make you believe in absurdities can make you commit atrocities! |
We have a natural right to make use of our pens as of our tongue, at our peril, risk and hazard. |
What is not in nature can never be true. |
...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. |
Let the laws be clear, uniform and precise; to interpret laws is almost always to corrupt them. |
It is dangerous to be right when the government is wrong. |
