In War It Is Not

The Confidence With Which A Sovereign Is Invested, Is Solid Only When It Is Sanctioned By The Suffrages Of The People, Who Clothed Him With The Supreme Magistracy.

Nothing Renders A Nation So Despicable As Religious Despotism.

Obedience To Public Authority Ought Not To Be Based Either On Ignorance Or Stupidity.

Water, Air, And Cleanness Are The Chief Articles In My Pharmacy.

Those Who Failed To Oppose Me, Who Readily Agreed With Me, Accepted All My Views, And Yielded Easily To My Opinions, Were Those Who Did Me The Most Injury, And Were My Worst Enemies, Because, By Surrendering To Me So Easily, They Encouraged Me To Go Too Far... I Was Then Too Powerful For Any Man, Except Myself, To Injure Me.