Country Quote by Leonhard Euler Download Open image “Madam, I have come from a country where people are hanged if they talk.” — Leonhard Euler ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.1 out of 5 (9 ratings) Copy quoteShare Country People
“Madam, I have just come from a country where people are hanged if they talk.” — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Tis ill talking of halters in the house of a man that was hanged. — Miguel de Cervantes Copy Share Image
Let the punishments of criminals be useful. A hanged man is good for nothing; a man condemned to public works still serves the country,… — Voltaire Copy Share Image
It must be well-nigh a maximum of sense to behave so that one escapes being hanged. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Once you have the gallows, you'll find new reasons to hang people from it. — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
The punishment of criminals should be of use; when a man is hanged he is good for nothing — Voltaire Copy Share Image
Sir, they are a race of convicts, and ought to be thankful for any thing we allow them short of hanging. — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
A hanging in a good quarrel is an easy death they say, though I could never hear of any that came back to say… — Robert Louis Stevenson Copy Share Image
In Germany, you would be hanged if you cracked a joke about Hitler and you would be killed by the state if you were… — Werner Herzog Copy Share Image
Nothing takes place in the world whose meaning is not that of some maximum or minimum. — Leonhard Euler Copy Share Image
Although to penetrate into the intimate mysteries of nature and thence to learn the true causes of phenomena is not allowed to us, nevertheless… — Leonhard Euler Copy Share Image
A function of a variable quantity is an analytic expression composed in any way whatsoever of the variable quantity and numbers or constant quantities. — Leonhard Euler Copy Share Image
Thus you see, most noble Sir, how this type of solution to the Königsberg bridge problem bears little relationship to mathematics, and I do… — Leonhard Euler Copy Share Image
The kind of knowledge which is supported only by observations and is not yet proved must be carefully distinguished from the truth; it is gained by induction, as we usually say. Yet we have seen cases in which mere induction led to error. Therefore, we should take great care not to accept as true such properties of the numbers which… — Leonhard Euler Copy Share
Since the fabric of the universe is most perfect and the work of a most wise Creator, nothing at all takes place in the universe in which some rule of maximum or minimum does not appear ... there is absolutely no doubt that every affect in the universe can be explained satisfactorily from final causes, by the aid of the… — Leonhard Euler Copy Share
If a nonnegative quantity was so small that it is smaller than any given one, then it certainly could not be anything but zero. To those who ask what the infinitely small quantity in mathematics is, we answer that it is actually zero. Hence there are not so many mysteries hidden in this concept as they are usually believed to… — Leonhard Euler Copy Share
Logic is the foundation of the certainty of all the knowledge we acquire. — Leonhard Euler Copy Share Image
For the sake of brevity, we will always represent this number 2.718281828459... by the letter e. — Leonhard Euler Copy Share Image
In the meantime, most noble Sir, you have assigned this question to the geometry of position, but I am ignorant as to what this… — Leonhard Euler Copy Share Image
For since the fabric of the universe is most perfect and the work of a most wise Creator, nothing at all takes place in… — Leonhard Euler Copy Share Image
Mathematicians have tried in vain to this day to discover some order in the sequence of prime numbers, and we have reason to believe… — Leonhard Euler Copy Share Image
I love playing for my country, getting the support. Especially for the kids and everybody, showing my example of what I can achieve so… — Maria Sharapova Copy Share Image
That country [Carthage] was rapidly sinking into the state of barbarism from whence it had been raised by the Phoenician colonies and Roman laws;… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
If my campaign is not in the debate, we will not be talking about how we really fix this problem of endless and expanding war, why we need to cut the military budget by 50%, why we need to bring back our troops scattered overseas, the police force of the world, in over a hundred countries, something like eight hundred… — Jill Stein Copy Share
For the Scottish government, the practice of having meetings in different parts of the country is well established, but for the U.K. government, it… — Nicola Sturgeon Copy Share Image
There's no reason someone who has fought for their country should be homeless of jobless. — Chris Kyle Copy Share Image
The image of blacks usually is one of people who are suffering from hunger, unemployment, and poverty. The idea of them as agents and activists - as starting revolutions - does not exist in most people's minds. And I think it's very, very important that folks understand how much this country was founded on the enslavement of blacks, and how… — Grace Lee Boggs Copy Share
It's very nice to be a rebel saying, 'I stand on my principles,' but if in fact that's not going to have any impact… — Dominic Grieve Copy Share Image
Most paper money initially existed as a substitute for gold. That's what gave it value. But right now what gives a currency value is other currency. Most countries hold reserves and the reserves are other currencies. If you are a backing up the euro with the dollar, what's backing up the dollar? I don't think it is going to go… — Peter Schiff Copy Share
You, of Canada, are building a magnificent record of achievement. My country rejoices in it. — Dwight D. Eisenhower Copy Share Image
The United States cannot and should not discriminate on the basis of religion. The free exercise of religion is at the very heart of… — Mike Pence Copy Share Image
In the nineteenth century some parts of the world were unexplored, but there was almost no restriction on travel.:; Up to 1914 you did not need a passport for any country except Russia.:; The European emigrant, if he could scrape together a few pounds for the passage, simply set sail for America or Australia, and when he got there no… — George Orwell Copy Share