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Originally posted by ADPiZXalum
Hmmmmmmmmmmm, I studied political science too and I've heard that quote 9 million times, always attributed to Voltaire.
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Nope, the quote was from a book called Friends of Voltaire by Evelyn Beatrice Hall about Voltaire. The book was published in 1906. Hall was paraphrasing "Not only is it extremely cruel to persecute in this brief life those who do not think the way we do, but I do not know if it might be too presumptuous to declare their eternal damnation," which Voltaire said in his "Treatise on Toleration."