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Government Quotes by Voltaire
- In general, the art of government consists of taking as much money as possible from one class of citizens to give to another.
- An ideal form of government is democracy tempered with assassination.
- The best government is a benevolent tyranny tempered by an occasional assassination.
- Governments need to have both shepherds and butchers.
- It is clear that the individual who persecutes a man, his brother, because he is not of the same opinion, is a monster.
- It is dangerous to be right when the government is wrong.
- 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.
- In general, the art of government consists in taking as much money as possible from one party of the citizens to give to the other.
- The ideal form of government is democracy tempered with assassination.
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