Voltaire Quotes
Let all the laws be clear, uniform and precise for interpreting laws is almost always to corrupt them.
Voltaire. A Philosophical Dictionary. Translated by William F. Fleming, E. R. DuMont, 1901.
At the time, in many states married women could not control their own inheritance, could not sign a contract, owned no part of a family business that a women might have founded and worked in her entire life, could not be an executor of a will—even if it were her husband’s.
Lockwood was one of the first American politicians to advocate some uniformity in State laws such as we now have with the Uniform Commercial Code and various model laws together with much more Federal preemption.
François-Marie Arouet, known by his nom de plume Voltaire (/vɒlˈtɛər, voʊl-/; also US: /vɔːl-/; French: [vɔltɛːʁ]), was a French Enlightenment writer, historian, and philosopher famous for his wit, his criticism of Christianity—especially the Roman Catholic Church—as well as his advocacy of freedom of speech, freedom of religion, and separation of church and state.