I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it - Evelyn Beatrice Hall

All men now allow that if any human power could have stemmed the avalanche of the French Revolution, it would have been the reforms of Turgot.

""I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it."

(my addition: ". . . as long as money, chicanery & power do not influence whose viewpoint is heard more.")"

If to be great means to be good, then Denis Diderot was a little man. But if to be great means to do great things in the teeth of great obstacles, then none can refuse him a place in the temple of the Immortals.