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Chemerinsky, arguably the foremost First Amendment scholar in the country, believes, in the Voltairean tradition, that free speech is the bedrock of a free society.

From The New Yorker • Jun. 25, 2018

Under Napoleon's very thumb, Mme. de Sta�l helped keep alive the Voltairean ardor for liberty; against his expressed wishes she introduced into France the disturbing spirit of German mysticism and romanticism that he most deplored.

From Time Magazine Archive

A reference to it will show that Bentham by this time took the Voltairean view of the Old Testament.

From The English Utilitarians, Volume I. by Stephen, Leslie, Sir

The Voltairean tradition has been his guide—a great deal of wit and satire, very little feeling, no simplicity.

From Amiel's Journal by Ward, Humphry, Mrs.

In literature he was a bigoted classic; a Voltairean in religious belief; rather fatuous, very kind-hearted; an honest man, and even an intelligent; but a very fool in politics.

From The Recollections of Alexis de Tocqueville by Tocqueville, Alexis de