Aduke.1639 net.general utcsrgv!utzoo!decvax!duke!bcw Tue Jan 19 08:04:54 1982 Re: net.jokes.q at HOCC The quote "I disagree with what you say, but will defend to the death your right to say it" was from the French philosopher Voltaire, but his attitude was pretty close to that of a lot of 18th century Americans who were involved in the American Revolution (Benjamin Franklin, for examxle). Bruce C. Wright @ Duke University ----------------------------------------------------------------- gopher://quux.org/ conversion by John Goerzen of http://communication.ucsd.edu/A-News/ This Usenet Oldnews Archive article may be copied and distributed freely, provided: 1. There is no money collected for the text(s) of the articles. 2. The following notice remains appended to each copy: The Usenet Oldnews Archive: Compilation Copyright (C) 1981, 1996 Bruce Jones, Henry Spencer, David Wiseman.