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"I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it." -- Evelyn Beatrice Hall, in The Friends of Voltaire (1906), describing the sort of thing Voltaire could have agreed with ... in a line ever since mistakenly attributed to Voltaire himself

From Wikiquote:

• Though these words are regularly attributed to Voltaire, they were first used by Evelyn Beatrice Hall, writing under the pseudonym of Stephen G Tallentyre in The Friends of Voltaire (1906), as a summation of Voltaire's beliefs on freedom of thought and expression.
• Another possible source for the quote was proposed by Norbert Guterman, editor of "A Book of French Quotations," who noted a letter to M. le Riche (6 February 1770) in which Voltaire is quoted as saying: "Monsieur l'abbé, I detest what you write, but I would give my life to make it possible for you to continue to write" ("Monsieur l'abbé, je déteste ce que vous écrivez, mais je donnerai ma vie pour que vous puissiez continuer à écrire"). This remark, however, does not appear in the letter.

[In light of the "Je suis Charlie" sentiment standing up for freedom of speech, the "Je ne suis pas Charlie" response from people who find Charlie Hebdo's content distasteful and bigoted, and the folks explaining that a lot of what looks racist in the published cartoons is actually mocking bigots (I'm stepping back from that and saying, "I do not know enough yet so I'll shut up and keep reading"), this seemed as good a time as any for the famous not-Voltaire quotation.]

[And just in case she's reading this, happy birthday to my cousin Maria in Cyprus, and also to John Tangent!]