"He who has not the spirit of..." - Quote by Voltaire

“Exaggeration, the inseparable companion of greatness.”

“History never repeats itself. Man always does.”

“The art of government is to make two-thirds of a nation pay all it possibly can pay for the benefit of the other third.”

“Revolutions are not born of chance but of necessity.”

“Women's virtue is frequently nothing but a regard to their own quiet and a tenderness for their reputation.”

“When wealth is centralized, the people are dispersed. When wealth is distributed, the people are brought together.”

“Why should we leave it to Harper & Brothers and Redding & Co. to select our reading?”

“Public opinion, because of the tremendous urge to conformity in gregarious animals, is less tolerant than any system of law.”

“Men talk of freedom! How many are free to think? Free from fear, from perturbation, from prejudice? Nine hundred and ninety-nine in a thousand are perfect slaves.”