Letters on the English quotes
6 quotes from Letters on the English by Voltaire, each verified verbatim against the text and located in the book.
Letters on the English
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An Englishman, as one to whom liberty is natural, may go to heaven his own way.
There the Jew, the Mahometan, and the Christian transact together, as though they all professed the same religion, and give the name of infidel to none but bankrupts.
If one religion only were allowed in England, the Government would very possibly become arbitrary; if there were but two, the people would cut one another's throats; but as there are such a multitude, they all live happy and in peace.
The English are the only people upon earth who have been able to prescribe limits to the power of kings by resisting them
It is inadvertently affirmed in the Christian countries of Europe that the English are fools and madmen.
He had left the world a plenum, and he now finds it a vacuum. At Paris the universe is seen composed of vortices of subtile matter; but nothing like it is seen in London.
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