Voltaire Quotes About Freedom

Quotes about: Freedom

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  It is difficult to free fools from the chains they revere.

  Voltaire

  Wisdom, Freedom, Fool

  "Le dîner du comte de Boulainvilliers: Troisième Entretien". Book by Voltaire, 1767.

• Man is free at the instant he wants to be.

  Voltaire

  Inspirational, Life, Spiritual

  "Brutus". Play by Voltaire (Act II, Scene I), 1730.

• It is dangerous to be right in matters where established men are wrong.

  Voltaire

  Inspirational, Religious, Freedom

  "The Age of Louis XIV". Book by Voltaire, 1751.

• History is the lie commonly agreed upon.

  Voltaire

  Truth, Freedom, Lying

• The true character of liberty is independence, maintained by force.

  Voltaire

  Freedom, Character, Independence

  Voltaire, Tobias George Smollett, Oliver Herbrand Gordon Leigh (1901). “Voltaire: Index to His Works, Genius and Character”

• Liberty, then, about which so many volumes have been written is, when accurately defined, only the power of acting.

  Voltaire

  Freedom, Power, Liberty

  Francois Voltaire (1977). “The Portable Voltaire”, p.87, Penguin

• Will is wish, and liberty is power.

  Voltaire

  Freedom, Wish, Liberty

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