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Spirit of John Milton! who pleaded so grandly for this great liberty, but would not allow it to be confounded with license, speak now to save this Republic from the shame of surrender to an insufferable pretension!
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Sumner invokes John Milton to emphasize the importance of distinguishing between liberty and license in speech.
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