Assassination Quote by Voltaire Download Open image “The best government is a benevolent tyranny tempered by an occasional assassination.” — Voltaire ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.5 out of 5 (4 ratings) Copy quoteShare Assassination Government Politics Tyranny
All governments are in equal measure good and evil. The best ideal is anarchy. — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
Good Government is not intrusive the people are hardly aware of it; the next best is felt yet loved; then comes that which is… — Laozi Copy Share Image
Benevolent, enlightened, wise dictators are the most efficient form of government. The problem is what comes afterwards. — Reid Hoffman Copy Share Image
Democracy, though slowly attained and never by revolutionary jumps, is the best government on earth when it tries to make all its citizens aristocrats.… — Peter Viereck Copy Share Image
The best form of government is that which is most likely to prevent the greatest sum of evil. — James Monroe Copy Share Image
The best government rests on the people, and not on the few, on persons and not on property, on the free development of public… — George Bancroft Copy Share Image
I heartily accept the motto, "That government is best which governs least"; and I should like to see it acted up to more rapidly… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Just as a royal rule, if not a mere name, must exist by virtue of some great personal superiority in the king, so tyranny,… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
The best government is that which teaches us to govern ourselves. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Government, even in its best state, is but a necessary evil; in its worst state, an intolerable one. — Thomas Paine 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
If it comes to a question of law, the charges they brought against me - the Espionage Act - is called the quintessential political… — Edward Snowden Copy Share Image
We have the ability to take him [President of Venezuela, Hugo Chavez] out, and I think the time has come that we exercise that… — Pat Robertson Copy Share Image
“Assassination is murder with a touch more precision. Brother Sim is precise.” — Mark Lawrence Copy Share Image
Strange, (is it not?) that battles, martyrs, blood, even assassination should so condense - perhaps only really lastingly condense - a Nationality. — Walt Whitman Copy Share Image
The Romans have provided a lot of writers with a model for various interstellar empires, of course, and no wonder. The Roman Empire is… — Ann Leckie Copy Share Image
We know from Talmadge Hayer, one of the men who carried out the assassination, who was shot by Ruben X as he tried to… — Manning Marable Copy Share Image
“He also had a condition that was referred to as granulated eyelids and it caused him to blink more than usual, as if he… — Ron Hansen Copy Share Image
However, after the assassination of Salman Taseer, the killer of Salman Taseer was welcomed by the religious fanatics. And they showered rose petals on… — Shahbaz Bhatti Copy Share Image
There is not a single celebrated Southern name in any of the departments of human industry except those of war, assassination, lynching, murder, the… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
I think that the implication of King's assassination has not been fully appreciated. — Henry Louis Gates Copy Share Image
The Senate has been debased to the level of a forum of hate and character assassination sheltered by the shield of congressional immunity. — Margaret Chase Smith Copy Share Image
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