...would keep the truth from being discerned from falsehood. Milton concluded his argument by saying, "Give me the liberty to know, to utter, and to argue...freely according to conscience, above all liberties. . . . And though all the windes of doctrin were let loose to play upon the earth, so Truth be in the...

...Although I dispraise not the defence of just immunities, 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 unequal to suppress opinions for...

...gone too. -Man-An, 1591-1654in Minding Mind - A Course in Basic Meditation, Thomas Cleary, tr., 1995 Give me the liberty to know, to utter, and to argue...freely according to conscience, above all liberties. - John Milton, 1608-1674 ~ Areopagitica, 1644 Man will never be free until the last king is strangled...

...seventeenthcentury poet John Milton ([1644] 2005: 71, 101) put it in his famous defence of the "unbridled" pen: "Give me the liberty to know, to utter, and to argue...freely according to conscience, above all liberties." Milton's views did not come from nowhere but were rooted in the social ferment of his time, when England...

...of all his pamphlets, a learned and eloquent defence of the principle that all men should be given 'the liberty to know, to utter and to argue freely according to conscience, above all liberties'. Milton borrowed from his beloved Greeks to find a way of talking about freedom, about its dependence...

...no avail. The tide runs too strong. The great English (and one-time Baptist) poet John Milton wrote, "Give me the liberty to know, to utter, and to argue freely according to conscience sake, above all liberties." The exercise of freedom in things of the spirit is at low ebb in too many...

...of people striving for freedom and truth. About this time, John Milton famously wrote these words: "Give me the liberty to know, to utter, and to argue...freely according to conscience, above all liberties." And, again, in his Areopagitica in 1644: "Though all the winds of doctrine were let loose to play upon...

...for the Liberty of Unlicensed Printing (1644) became a powerful reminder for future generations of the "liberty to know, to utter, and to argue freely according to conscience." (see Section 5.2). In the spirit of Milton, British political thinker John Locke (1632-1704) wrote...

...essential right in a democratic society. As the poet and essayist John Milton put it eloquently in 1644, "The liberty to know, to utter, and to argue freely according to conscience [is] above all liberties." 1 Reflecting this wisdom, the First Amendment to the US Constitution guarantees...

...essential right in a democratic society. As the poet and essayist John Milton put it eloquently in 1644, "The liberty to know, to utter, and to argue freely according to conscience [is] above all liberties."1 Reflecting this wisdom, the First Amendment to the US Constitution guarantees...