"The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary." ~ H.L. Mencken
John Milton on Freedom of Speech
Submitted by Michael Kleen on Fri, 2010-12-10 04:00
In the face of widespread condemnation of WikiLeaks and the arrest of its founder Julian Assange, we can see that freedom of speech, of information, and of the press is still under attack. John Milton's arguments in 1644 still stand as an eloquent defense of press freedom.
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