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==Voltaire on Democracy==

==Voltaire on Democracy==

[[File:Voltaire.jpg|thumb|160px|Bust of Voltaire with wig.]]

[[File:Voltaire.jpg|thumb|160px|Bust of Voltaire with wig.]]

Voltaire was a strong proponent of [[democracy]] in an age when [[republican government]] was practically nonexistent and kings ruled. In a dialogue between men of all the lands of his day, they lament "that there is not one republic in all this vast part of the world", and that they long to live in "The state where only the laws are obeyed". When the [[Brahmin]] is asked where that country is, he answers, 'We must look for it'.

Voltaire was a strong proponent of [[democracy]] in an age when republican government was practically nonexistent and kings ruled. In a dialogue between men of all the lands of his day, they lament "that there is not one republic in all this vast part of the world", and that they long to live in "The state where only the laws are obeyed". When the [[Brahmin]] is asked where that country is, he answers, 'We must look for it'.

<ref>http://history.hanover.edu/texts/voltaire/volstate.html</ref>

<ref>http://history.hanover.edu/texts/voltaire/volstate.html</ref>

"Where did the ALA's [American Library Association's] current, radically [[Subjectivism|subjectivist]]/individualist philosophy come from? The ALA, which constantly quotes from the First Amendment and whose brochures picture the Founding Fathers, would have you believe that it springs from James Madison's Enlightenment ideas about freedom. Not so. The ALA's philosophy comes from four sources: first, the later Enlightenment philosopher, Voltaire, who was hostile to all revealed religion."</ref>

"Where did the ALA's [American Library Association's] current, radically [[Subjectivism|subjectivist]]/individualist philosophy come from? The ALA, which constantly quotes from the First Amendment and whose brochures picture the Founding Fathers, would have you believe that it springs from James Madison's Enlightenment ideas about freedom. Not so. The ALA's philosophy comes from four sources: first, the later Enlightenment philosopher, Voltaire, who was hostile to all revealed religion."</ref>

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