The Philosophical Dictionary
Voltaire
Selected and Translated by H.I. Woolf
New York: Knopf, 1924
Scanned by the Hanover College Department of History in 1995.
Proofread and pages added by Jonathan Perry, March 2001.


Helvetia

" But I am your emperor. "

" But I do not want you any longer."

" But your fathers were my father's slaves."

" It is for that very reason that their children do not wish to serve you."

" But I had the right belonging to my rank."

" And we have the right of nature."

Why is liberty so rare? Because it is the chiefest good.