Adams AP Euro: Quotes to know

Napoleon

"Authority from above, confidence from below"

Emmanuel Kant

"Dare to know"

Peter the Great

"Henceforth in accordance with this,his majesty's decree, all courts attendants... must shave their beards and mustaches."

Erasmus

"I Wish that even the weakest women should read the gospel, should read the Episties of Paul"

Louis XIV

"I am the State"

Fredric the Great

"I am the first servant of the state"

Elizabeth I

"I will make no windows into men's souls"

Ignatius of Loyola

"If she [the church] shall have defined anything to be black when to our eyes it appears to be white, we ought in like manner to pronounce it to be black"

Adam Smith

"Its not from the benevolence of the butcher, the brewer, or the baker that we expect our dinner, but from their regard to their own interest"

Voltaire

"Lets eat a Jesuit"

Rousseau

"Man is born free and everywhere he is in chains"

James I

"No bishop, no king"

John Locke

"No man's knowledge here can go beyond his experience"

Henry IV (of Navarre)

"Paris is worth a mass"

Robespierre

"The strength of popular government in revolution is born virtue and terror; terror without virtue i disastrous, virtue without terror is powerless. Terror is nothing but prompt, severe and inflexible justice; it flows then from virtue"

Charles V

"To think that I attempted to force the reason and conscience of 1000s of men into one mold and I cannot make two clocks agree"

Descartes

"We ought never to allow ourselves to be persuaded of the truth of anything unless on the evidence of our reason" AND "I think, therefore I am"

Machevelli

"a wise prince ought never to keep faith when by doing so it would be against his interests"