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Free Speech and Conscience
Thank Heaven for Free Speech
The authors of the ‘Cato Letters’ recalled how Greek general Timoleon replied when the people he had saved from oppression turned and bit him.
by John Trenchard 1662-1723 and Thomas Gibson ?-1750
No Danger in Discussion
It should never be labelled ‘dangerous’ to subject Government policy to calm and honest criticism.
as printed in The Morning Chronicle 1792
A Right and a Duty
The tighter the US Government’s stranglehold on dissent grew, the harder Daniel Webster fought for freedom of speech.
by Daniel Webster 1782-1852
Truth By Statute?
John Milton reminded Parliament that the Truth wasn’t what they and their fact-checkers in Stationers’ Hall made it.
by John Milton 1632-1704
Stuart Era
Something Rotten in the State of Denmark
When Ambassador Molesworth criticised the government of Christian V, the Danish king cried ‘off with his head!’.
from The Bee, or Literary Intelligencer 1792
Poets and Poetry
‘Westward, Look, the Land Is Bright!’
Though Arthur Clough had discovered that to be your own man was a long and toilsome path, it was not a path without hope.
by Arthur Hugh Clough 1819-1861