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... nothing is more essential to public interest than the preservation of public liberty.

- David Hume



Thursday, December 5, 2019

Milton to Xi Jinping (a tweet)


Give me Liberty to know, to utter and to argue freely according to Conscience, above all Liberties.

John Milton, Areopagitica (1644)[1]



[1] John Milton, Milton’s Areopagitica: A Speech for the Liberty of Unlicensed Printing, ed., Thomas Osborn (London: Longmans, Green, and Co., 1873), p. 64.

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