"The Holy Roman Empire is neither Holy,..." - Quote by Voltaire

“Where there is friendship, there is our natural soil.”

“Know that the secret of the arts is to correct nature.”

“It is far better to be silent than merely to increase the quantity of bad books.”

“The schools begin with what they call the elements, and where do they end?”

“The State is the coldest of all cold monsters.”

“A man who whinnies with noisy laughter, surpasses all the animals in vulgarity.”

“America cannot have an empire abroad and a Republic at home.”

“Like other systems in decay, the Roman Empire continued to function for several generations after its vitality was sapped. For nearly a hundred years our Island was one of the scenes of conflict between a dying civilisation and lusty, famishing barbarism.”

“The British Empire was so vast and so powerful, the sun would never set on it. This is how big it was, yet these 13 little scrawny states, tired of taxation without representation, tired of being exploited and oppressed and degraded, told that big British Empire, liberty or death.”