Let us leave every man at liberty to seek into him and to lose himself in his ideas. — Voltaire Copy Share Image
Not all citizens can be equally strong; but they can all be equally free. — Voltaire Copy Share Image
All men are by nature free; you have therefore an undoubted liberty to depart whenever you please, but will have many and… — Voltaire Copy Share Image
It is the poverty connected with our species which subordinates one man to another. It is not inequality which is the real… — Voltaire Copy Share Image
“I tried to believe in God, but I confess to you that God meant nothing in my life, and that in my… — Voltaire Copy Share Image
Now, you receive all your ideas; therefore you receive your wish, you wish therefore necessarily. The word "liberty" does not therefore belong… — Voltaire Copy Share Image
All men have equal rights to liberty, to their property, and to the protection of the laws — Voltaire Copy Share Image
“Martin, perceiving some shelves filled with English books, said to the senator, “I fancy that a republican must be highly delighted with… — Voltaire Copy Share Image
I do not agree with what you have to say, but I'll defend to the death your right to say it. — Voltaire Copy Share Image
I may not agree with what you have to say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it. — Voltaire Copy Share Image
We have a natural right to make use of our pens as of our tongues, at our peril, risk and hazard. — Voltaire Copy Share Image
In every province, the chief occupations, in order of importance, are lovemaking, malicious gossip, and talking nonsense. — Voltaire Copy Share Image
Fanaticism, to which men are so much inclined, has always served not only to render them more brutalized but more wicked. — Voltaire Copy Share Image
It is with books as with men: a very small number play a great part, the rest are lost in the multitude. — Voltaire Copy Share Image
Meslier was the most singular phenomenon ever seen among all the meteors fatal to the Christian religion. — Voltaire Copy Share Image
Every sensible man, every honorable man, must hold the Christian sect in horror." "Christianity is the most ridiculous, the most absurd and bloody religion… — Voltaire Copy Share Image
Being unable to make people more reasonable, I preferred to be happy away from them — Voltaire Copy Share Image
When his highness sends a ship to Egypt, does he trouble his head whether the mice on board are at their ease or not? — Voltaire Copy Share Image
Madness is to think of too many things in succession too fast, or of one thing too exclusively. — Voltaire Copy Share Image
God gave us the gift of life; it is up to us to give ourselves the gift of living well. — Voltaire Copy Share Image