Give me the liberty to know, to utter, and to argue freely according to conscience, above all liberties.
Source: Areopagitica: a Speech for the Liberty of Unlicensed Printing to the Parliament of England, 1644.
-- John Milton, (Dec 9 1608-1674), English poet, essayist; He was a master epic poetry; Wrote in four languages including Paradise Lost, 1676, after losing his sight.