The best government is a benevolent tyranny tempered by an occasional assassination.

Author: Voltaire

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Life is a shipwreck, but we must not forget to sing in the lifeboats.

God gave us the gift of life, it is up to us to give ourselves the gift of living well.

I know many books which have bored their readers but I know of none which has done real evil.

It is dangerous to be right in matters on which the established authorities are wrong.

You can fool some people sometimes, but you can’t fool all the people all the time.

Freedom is not the absence of commitments, but the ability to choose - and commit myself to - what is best for me.

You did the best that you knew how. Now that you know better, you’ll do better.