"The safest course is to do nothing against one's conscience. 
With this secret, we can enjoy life and have no fear from death."
-- Voltaire [François Marie Arouet] (1694-1778)
http://quotes.liberty-tree.ca/quote_blog/Voltaire.Quote.CBFB

"...So long as the people do not care to exercise their freedom,
those who wish to tyrannize will do so; for tyrants are active and ardent,
and will devote themselves in the name of any number of gods, religious and otherwise,
to put shackles upon sleeping men." -- Voltaire [François Marie Arouet] (1694-1778)
Source: Philosophical Dictionary, 1764
http://quotes.liberty-tree.ca/quote_blog/Voltaire.Quote.312A

"Let the laws be clear, uniform and precise; to interpret laws is 
almost always to corrupt them." -- Voltaire [François-Marie Arouet] 
(1694-1778)
http://quotes.liberty-tree.ca/qb/Voltaire.Quote.312E

"The ideal form of government is democracy tempered with assassination."
-- Voltaire [François Marie Arouet] (1694-1778)
http://quotes.liberty-tree.ca/qb/Voltaire.Quote.A637

"Descartes was injerously accused of being an atheist, the last 
refuge of religious scandal; and he who had employed all the 
sagacity and penetration of his genius in searching for new 
proofs of the existence of a God was suspected to believe there was no 
such Being." -- Voltaire (François-Marie Arouet de Voltaire); "On Bacon 
and Newton."

"As you have the power, sir, to do some service to letters, I implore
you not to clip the wings of our writers so closely, nor turn into
barndoor fowls those who, allowed a start, might become eagles;
reasonable liberty permits the mind to soar--slavery makes it creep."
-- Voltaire [A Letter To A First Commissioner]

A: Yes, yes.  There is a natural law, and it does not consist 
either in doing harm to others or in rejoicing thereat. -- [FMA] 
Voltaire; Phil. Dict. -- Natural Law.

An itinerant bookseller does not burden himself with a Virgil, 
with a Horace, but with a new book, even though it be 
detestible.  He draws a you aside and says to you: "Sir, do 
you want some books from Holland?"  [FMA] Voltaire; Phil. 
Dict. -- New Novelties (Trends and Fads to Prechew).

"Chance is a word void of meaning, nothing happens without a 
cause." -- Voltaire; Phil. Dict. -- Chance

"If You Have A Lawsuit, Your Goods, Your Honor, Your Very 
Life Depends On The Very Interpretation Of A Book You Never 
Read." -- Francois "Voltaire" Marie Arouet; Phil. Dictionary.

"...So long as the people
do not care to exercise their freedom,
those who wish to tyrannize will do so;
for tyrants are active and ardent,
and will devote themselves in the name
of any number of gods, religious and otherwise,
to put shackles upon sleeping men." -- Voltaire
[François Marie Arouet] (1694-1778)
Source: Philosophical Dictionary, 1764

"God is a comedian playing to an audience too 
afraid to laugh." -- Voltaire

"In general, the art of government
consists in taking as much money as possible
from one party of the citizens to give to the other."
-- Voltaire [François Marie Arouet] (1694-1778) 1764 
http://quotes.liberty-tree.ca/qb/Voltaire.Quote.03D8