HISTORY
ABSOLUTISM AND REVOLUTION
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“I might not agree with what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it.” This quote is attributed to which Age of Reason Philosopher?
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Thomas Hobbes
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Cervantes
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Karl Marx
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Voltaire
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Explanation:
Detailed explanation-1: -Back before the Constitution enshrined the principle of free speech in the very First Amendment, the French writer, wit, and philosopher Voltaire said, “I may not agree with what you have to say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it.”
Detailed explanation-2: -Trouble is Voltaire never actually said or wrote this. It comes from a 1906 biography, The Friends of Voltaire, that was written by an English writer named Beatrice Evelyn Hall. The author was talking about the time Voltaire stood up for another writer whose books had been burned.
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