All VOLTAIRE Quotes about “Liberty”

“If you have two religions in your land, the two will cut each otherâ€™s throats; but if you have thirty religions, they will dwell in peace”
“Liberty of thought is the life of the soul.”
“Let us leave every man at liberty to seek into him and to lose himself in his ideas.”
“Now, you receive all your ideas; therefore you receive your wish, you wish therefore necessarily. The word "liberty" does not therefore belong in any way to your will....The will, therefore, is not a faculty that one can call free. A free will is an expression absolutely void of sense, and what the scholastics have called will of indifference, that is to say willing without cause, is a chimera unworthy of being combated.”
“All men are by nature free; you have therefore an undoubted liberty to depart whenever you please, but will have many and great difficulties to encounter in passing the frontiers.”

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