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By John Milton
Give me the liberty to know, to utter, and to argue freely according to conscience, above all liberties.
- Source
- Areopagitica: A Speech of Mr. John Milton for the Liberty of Unlicenc'd Printing, to the Parlament of England, 1644
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- John Milton Reading Room, ed. Thomas H. Luxon, Dartmouth College (text with 1644 spelling)
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From Milton's pamphlet Areopagitica (1644), addressed to the English Parliament against the licensing of books before printing. It is the sentence near the end of the speech that follows "Although I dispraise not the defence of just immunities, yet love my peace better, if that were all."