Who overcomes by force hath overcome but half his foe.

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

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.

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

If it come to prohibiting, there is aught more likely to be prohibited than truth itself.

Truth never comes into the world but like a bastard, to the ignominy of him that brought her birth.