| Stuart Briscoe - 2010 - 773 pages
...no more successful than attempts to lock up crows by shutting the park gates! Milton said, "give me liberty to know, to utter, and to argue freely according to conscience, above all liberties." The freedom to argue! But not all arguing is profitable. Proverbs states, "When arguing with fools,... | |
| Richard Alan Krieger - 2007 - 344 pages
...Gandhi "Proclaim liberty throughout all the land unto all the inhabitants." — Bible, Leviticus 25:10 "Give me the liberty to know, to utter, and to argue...freely according to conscience, above all liberties." — John Milton "Abstract liberty, like other mere abstractions, is not to be found." — Edmund Burke... | |
| Slavko Splichal - 2002 - 254 pages
...in the twentieth century an aristocratic ideology of the "professionals" following Milton's example: "Give me the liberty to know, to utter, and to argue...freely according to conscience, above all liberties" (1644/1999, 44; emphasis added). It firmly supports Bentham's ideas of indispensability of the press... | |
| Annabel M. Patterson, Professor Annabel Patterson - 2002 - 308 pages
...which ye cannot be — oppressive, arbitrary, and tyrannous— as they were from whom you have freed us. ... Give me the liberty to know, to utter, and...to argue freely according to conscience, above all liberties.11 (Speeches, 1:532-33) The ventriloquized first-person singular here has, as it had originally,... | |
| Ian Hargreaves - 2003 - 320 pages
...great tract in the cause of free expression, John Milton's Arcopagitica (1644) and its momentous plea: 'Give me the liberty to know, to utter and to argue...freely according to conscience, above all liberties.' Milton's words foreshadowed those of the American Constitution and its First Amendment that: 'Congress... | |
| Gerald F Gaus - 2003 - 260 pages
...to group and time to time, truth appeals to our universal, shared, reason. Hence, proclaimed Milton, 'Give me the liberty to know, to utter, and to argue...freely according to conscience, above all liberties'. 6 Over two hundred years later (1859), John Stuart Mill again appealed to truth and reason in his case... | |
| John Milton - 2003 - 1012 pages
...Although I dispraise not the defence of just immunities,0 yet love my peace better, if that were all. Give me the liberty to know, to utter, and to argue...freely according to conscience, above all liberties. What would be best advised then, if it be found so hurtful and so unequal0 to suppress opinions for... | |
| H. Rondel Rumburg - 2003 - 253 pages
...John Milton (1608-74) expressed himself on the doctrine. He referred to ft as the preeminent liberty, "Give me the liberty to know, to utter, and to argue...freely according to conscience, above all liberties," (12) Under that kind of liberty the Bible's authority was to be given preference to the established... | |
| Karen Sanders - 2003 - 212 pages
...impassioned plea for freedom of expression and toleration of falsehood has entered the Anglo-American canon: Give me the liberty to know, to utter, and to argue...freely according to conscience, above all liberties. (1644/1946: 35) It is not so often noted that his defence of freedom of expression and toleration has... | |
| Gerald F Gaus - 2003 - 256 pages
...to group and time to time, truth appeals to our universal, shared, reason. Hence, proclaimed Milton, 'Give me the liberty to know, to utter, and to argue freely according to conscience, above all liberties'.6 Over two hundred years later (1859), John Stuart Mill again appealed to truth and reason... | |
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