"I was never ruined but twice: once..." - Quote by Voltaire

“In France every man is either an anvil or a hammer; he is a beater or must be beaten.”

“The opinion of all lawyers, the unanimous cry of the nation, and the good of the state, are in themselves a law.”

“The Jews are of all peoples the grosses, the most ferocious, the most fanatical, and the most absurd.”

“Marriage is the only adventure open to the cowardly.”

“If this is a blessing, it is certainly very well disguised.”

“Most of the world's work is done by people who don't feel very well.”

“The only way out [of international dictatorship] is to place international law above governments, which means [...] that there must be a parliament for making it, and that parliament must be constituted by means of worldwide elections in which all nations will take part.”

“My son wouldn't go get heroin. If he did or didn't, it wouldn't have anything to do with whether it was legal or illegal.”

“He said that private practice in medicine ought to be put down by law. When I asked him why, he said that private doctors were ignorant licensed murders.”