Efficacious

Famous quotes containing the word efficacious:

“After the earthquake, which had destroyed three-quarters of Lisbon, the country’s wise men had found no more efficacious means of preventing total ruin than to give the people a fine auto-da-fé.”
—Voltaire [François Marie Arouet] (1694–1778)

“Vaccination is the medical sacrament corresponding to baptism. Whether it is or is not more efficacious I do not know.”
—Samuel Butler (1835–1902)