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

No man [...] can be so stupid to deny that all men naturally were born free, being the image and resemblance of God himself.

But what more oft in Nations grown corrupt,And by thir vices brought to servitude,Than to love Bondage more than Liberty,Bondage with ease than strenuous liberty;

Who kills a man kills a reasonable creature, God’s image, but he who destroys a good book, kills reason itself, kills the image of God, as it were in the eye.