 | Harmon Kingsbury - 1855 - 90 pages
...said:—Fellow-citizens,—In all things that have beauty, there is nothing to man more comely than liberty. Give me the liberty to know, to utter, and to argue freely, above all liberties. (Cheers.) A more important subject than this never, in the history of this country,... | |
 | Charles Knight - 1857 - 574 pages
..."Liberty of Unlicensed Printing," and spoke the words which tyranny has always most dreaded to hear, " Give me the liberty to know, to utter, and to argue freely according to conscience, above all liberties." If the petty newspapers of 1637 and Ш8 had told of Janet Geddes... | |
 | Henry Pitman - 1856 - 1048 pages
...wish to utter — the only country in which the aspiration of the illustrious Milton is granted — " Give me the liberty to know, to utter, and to argue freely according to concience, above all other liberties." This liberty we enjoy through the courage and sacrifices of... | |
 | Charles Sumner - 1856 - 736 pages
...as on every other subject, I claim the right to be heard. That right I cannot, I will not abandon. " Give me the liberty to know, to utter and to argue freely, above all liberties ;" these are the glowing words which flashed from the soul of John Milton, in his... | |
 | David Masson - 1873 - 770 pages
...society. His whole oration breathes the full principle rather than the exceptions. "Give me," he says, " the liberty to know, to utter and to argue freely according " to my conscience, above all liberties." And he makes a brave defence of the existing Sects, without putting... | |
 | Robert Demaus - 1860 - 580 pages
...Although I dispraise not the defence of just immunities, yet I love my peace better, if that were all. dim me the liberty to know, to utter, and to argue freely, according to conscience, above all liberties. 2. OPINION OF MILTON, IN HIS LATER YEARS, OF THE CTVTL WAR.2 (INTRODUCTORY... | |
 | Royal Gould Wilder - 1861 - 454 pages
...will excuse it. I can not think it is your wish to prevent the utterance of our honest convictions. ' Give me the liberty to know, to utter, and to argue freely, according to conscience, above all liberties? You will see that I am conscientiously opposed to nearly all the changes... | |
 | Royal Gould Wilder - 1861 - 468 pages
...will excuse it. I can not think it is your wish to prevent the utterance of our honest convictions. ' Give me the liberty to know, to utter, and to argue freely, according to conscience, above all liberties..1 You will see that I am conscientiously opposed to nearly all the... | |
 | Thomas Arnold - 1862 - 452 pages
...reinforce an abrogated and merciless law, that iathers may dispatch at will their own children. . . . Give me the liberty to know, to utter, and to argue freely according to conscience, above all other liberties." Harington's Oceania has been already noticed.f Locke's two... | |
 | Thomas Erskine May - 1863 - 608 pages
...civil liberty attained that wise men look for." — Miltim's Areopagelica, Works, iv. 396; Ed. 1851. " Give me the liberty to know, to utter, and to argue, freely according to conscience, above all liberties." — Ibid., 442. 1 Erskine' s speech for Paine. But the minds of men... | |
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Give me the liberty to know, to utter, and to argue freely according to conscience, above all liberties. 
