It is not enough to render things equal to the will, that they are equal or alike in themselves.

We have a right to know or may lawfully know any truth. And a right to know any truth whatsoever implies a right to think freely.

By freethinking I mean the use of the understanding in endeavoring to find out the meaning of any proposition whatsoever, in considering the nature of the evidence for or against, and in judging of it according to the seeming force or weakness of the evidence.

Believe it, my good friend, to love truth for truth's sake is the principal part of human perfection in the world, and the seed-plot of all other virtues; and if I mistake not, you have as much of it as I ever met with in anybody.

It is not enough to render things equal to the will, that they are equal or alike in themselves.

Willing or preferring is the same with respect to good and evil, that judging is with respect to truth or falsehood.

I am obliged to believe certain opinions myself. No man's belief will save me except my own.