"The tyranny of the many would be..." - Quote by Voltaire

“Cherish those who seek the truth but beware of those who find it.”

“Tyrants have always some slight shade of virtue; they support the laws before destroying them.”

“Whoever serves his country well has no need of ancestors.”

“There is nothing more hostile to a city that a tyrant, under whom in the first and chiefest place, there are not laws in common, but one man, keeping the law himself to himself, has the sway, and this is no longer equal.”

“The parent storms, the child looks on, catches the lineaments of wrath, puts on the same airs in the circle of smaller slaves, gives a loose to the worst of passions, and thus nursed, educated and daily exercised in tyranny, cannot but be stamped by it with odious peculiarities.”

“Far more violence has been done in obeying the law than in breaking the law.”

“Mob rule and emasculation of the wise' and 'who will watch the guardians'?”

“Each generation exercises power over its successors: and each, in so far as it modifies the environment bequeathed to it and rebels against tradition, resists and limits the power of its predecessors.”

“Good and evil thoughts are each a potent power, and they fill the universe.”