Victor Hugo Quotes
Work, which makes a man free, and thought, which makes him worthy of freedom.
Hugo, Victor. Les Misérables. Translated by Charles E. Wilbour, Carleton, 1862.
Ingersoll was considered to be the greatest orator and political thinker of his day, but his overt atheistic views curtailed his elected political career.
Thomas Jefferson used this quotation in one of his arguments against slavery. Jove was the most powerful of the Ancient Greek Gods.
Victor-Marie Hugo was a French poet, novelist, and dramatist of the Romantic movement. During a literary career that spanned more than sixty years, he wrote abundantly in an exceptional variety of genres: lyrics, satires, epics, philosophical poems, epigrams, novels, history, critical essays, political speeches, funeral orations, diaries, letters public and private, as well as dramas in verse and prose.
