..."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." I cannot bring myself to hurry over this noble tract. I have read it over and over again. I read it...

...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...

...is the Milton who was passionate in his defense of freedom, who wrote the "Areopagitica," who cried "Give me the liberty to know, to utter, and to argue freely according to conscience, above all other liberties." This is the Milton who in Italy went to see and to support Galileo, at that time...

...Principles of the Christian Religion, as Professed by the People called the Quakers, XIV (1678) 1 1 Give me the liberty to know, to utter, and to argue...freely according to conscience, above all liberties. John Milton, Areopagitica (1644) 12 Look to your health; and if you have it, praise God, and value...

...on Politics and Society 1Glasgow: Fontana. 1976t. 143..69. Milton writes in Areopagitica 135l: "And though all the winds of doctrine were let loose to play upon the earth. so Truth he in the field. we do injuriously hy licensing and prohihiting to misdouht her strength. Let her and...

...fight, clashing opinions as producing truth, the inferiority of "cloistered virtues," and his call for "liberty to know, to utter, and to argue freely according to conscience" — exceeded his limited goal of arguing against licensing.27 In addition to attacking licensing, Levellers...

...religious expression had to be part of a broader liberty of expression in general. '(T]ne liberty t() know, to utter and to argue freely according to conscience, above all' marks the beginning ot a powerful dissenting (if you will) tradition in our political life (Milton...

...liberty, he wrote, and neither its writers nor its readers should be restricted (CPW 2:505, 55s, 554). "Give me the liberty to know, to utter, and to argue...freely according to conscience, above all liberties" (CPW7 2:560). Milton's knowing came through reading, and he was "certain that a wise man will make...

...liberty attained that wise men look for"— Milton, Areopagitica (1644), which also contains the words: "Give me the liberty to know, to utter, and to argue...freely, according to conscience, above all liberties." ?plaud: beat the hands. Perhaps an offshoot of the preceding, plaudits, applaud, applause, plosion,...

...their part, the radicals preferred instead to recall the words of Milton in his Areopagitica of 1644: "Give me the liberty to know, to utter, and to argue freely according to conscience, above all liberties."15 11. Village Sex A though alive with atheists, cubists, poets, free-thinkers, freelovers,...