Quotes by Voltaire

The ideal form of government is democracy tempered with assassination.

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.

An ideal form of government is democracy tempered with assassination.

The opportunity for doing mischief is found a hundred times a day, and of doing good once in a year.

All styles are good except the tiresome kind.

Better is the enemy of good.

The best is the enemy of the good.

Every man is guilty of all the good he did not do.

To believe in God is impossible not to believe in Him is absurd.

It is not known precisely where angels dwell whether in the air, the void, or the planets. It has not been God’s pleasure that we should be informed of their abode.