Voltaire (1694-1778) Holy Week was not a good week for personal liberty, as governments across the United States engaged in direct and subtle attacks on free speech. The freedom of speech is ...

Voltaire (1694-1778 ... James Madison, who drafted the Bill of Rights, insisted upon referring to speech as “the” freedom of speech, so as to emphasize that it preexisted the government.

Back before the Constitution enshrined the principle of free speech in the very First Amendment, the French writer, wit, and philosopher Voltaire ... swirling around freedom of speech are too ...

The freedom of speech is a natural right that preexists ... you say but will defend to the death your right to say it.” — Voltaire, 1694-1778 When Thomas Jefferson wrote the Declaration ...

Voltaire, 1694-1778 Holy Week was not a good week for personal liberty as governments throughout the United States engaged in direct and subtle attacks on free speech. The freedom of speech is ...