"It is better to risk saving a..." - Quote by Voltaire

“Why, since we are always complaining of our ills, are we constantly employed in redoubling them?”

“If this is the best of possible worlds, what then are the others?”

“We have our arts, the ancients had theirs... We cannot raise obelisks a hundred feet high in a single piece, but our meridians are more exact.”

“We shall fight for a universal dominion of right by such a concert of free peoples as shall bring peace and safety to all nations and make the world itself at last free.”

“I am always on the side of the revolutionists, because there never was a revolution unless there were some oppressive and intolerable conditions against which to revolute.”

“And this Nation, for all its hopes and all its boasts, will not be fully free until all its citizens are free.”

“It was needless, after this, to say that all was vanity and vexation of spirit; for it is impossible to derive happiness from the company of those whom we deprive of happiness.”

“Any moral philosophy is exceedingly rare. This of Menu addresses our privacy more than most. It is a more private and familiar, and at the same time, a more public and universal word, than is spoken in parlor or pulpit nowadays.”

“If you choose the lesser of two evils, you are still choosing evil.”