Give me the liberty to know, to utter, and to argue freely according to conscience, above all liberties.

Who overcomes by force hath overcome but half his foe.

He who kills a man kills a reasonable creature, but he who destroys a good book kills reason itself.

The mind is its own place, and in itself can make a Heaven of Hell, a Hell of Heaven.

None can love freedom heartily, but good men; the rest love not freedom, but license.

He that studieth revenge keepeth his own wounds green, which otherwise would heal and do well.

Where there is much desire to learn, there of necessity will be much arguing, much writing, many opinions; for opinions in good men is but knowledge in the making.

No man who know aught can be so stupid to deny that all men naturally were born free.