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Tag: John Milton

(1608 – 1674) English poet and intellectual who served as a civil servant for the Commonwealth of England under its Council of State and later under Oliver Cromwell.

Freedom of speech is paramount

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

Author Greg RavenPosted on April 22, 2021April 22, 2021Categories speechTags John Milton

The importance of language

When language in common use in any country becomes irregular and depraved, it is followed by their ruin and degradation.

Author Greg RavenPosted on October 5, 2020Categories languageTags John Milton

“Perhaps the sentiments contained in the following pages, are not yet sufficiently fashionable to procure them general favor; a long habit of not thinking a thing wrong, gives it a superficial appearance of being right, and raises at first a formidable outcry in defense of custom. But the tumult soon subsides.” — Thomas Paine

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