Apologies to Martin, who, at Conference, I told that Voltaire said, “Mankind will not be free until the last prince is strangled with the entrails of the last priest.”
Not only did Voltaire not say, but Diderot didn’t say it either.
This comes hot on the heels that Voltaire also might not have said that he would defend to the death your right to say a thing of which he disapproved.
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Fortunately, I don’t have to apologise to Paddy Ashdown for claiming that Edmund Burke said “All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is that good men do nothing.” But it does raise the question: are any accredited quotations genuine? And is it just possible that all these rhetorical geniuses were in fact dunces who had good spindoctors?
Apology not needed – and fully accepted! 🙂
The article I mentioned about the Quakers is here.