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"The great vice of democracy is certainly not tyranny and cruelty: there have been mountain-dwelling republicans, savage, ferocious; but it is not the republican spirit that made them so, it is nature.
"The great vice of democracy is certainly not tyranny and cruelty: there have been mountain-dwelling republicans, savage, ferocious; but it is not the republican spirit that made them so, it is nature.
The real vice of a civilized republic is in the [[Turkish]] fable of the dragon with many heads and the dragon with many tails. The many heads hurt each other, and the many tails obey a single head which wants to devour everything."<ref>http://history.hanover.edu/texts/voltaire/volstate.html</ref>
The real vice of a civilized republic is in the [[Turkish]] fable of the dragon with many heads and the dragon with many tails. The many heads hurt each other, and the many tails obey a single head which wants to devour everything."<ref>http://history.hanover.edu/texts/voltaire/volstate.html</ref>
He also indicated some support for what he called "enlightened despots", which ultimately paved way to the "smarter than thou" attitude of various leftists.<ref>https://web.archive.org/web/20100523081023/http://bighollywood.breitbart.com/mmoriarty/2010/05/19/teachable-tyranny/</ref>
==Voltaire's decline and death==
==Voltaire's decline and death==