Daily quote by Leonhard Euler

• Madam, I have come from a country where people are hanged if they talk.
  • In Berlin, to the Queen Mother of Prussia, on his lack of conversation in his meeting with her, on his return from Russia; as quoted in Science in Russian Culture : A History to 1860 (1963) Alexander Vucinich
  • Variant: Madame... I have come from a country where one can be hanged for what one says.