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  • Sep 14th, 2021 @ 2:20pm

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    Hey, thanks for that! I've long had the understanding that Voltaire was the source of that quote (well, not the latter half, anyway).

    As it turns out, it comes from a 1906 biography by Evelyn Beatrice Hall, in which it was intended to represent a summary of his thinking on free speech issues. “I did not mean to imply,” she wrote later, “that Voltaire used these words verbatim.”


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