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Fox Mulder

Fear. It’s the oldest tool of power. If you’re distracted by fear of those around you it keeps you from seeing the actions of those above.
Agent Fox Mulder (David Duchovny), in “Blood,” The X‑Files, Season Two, Episode Three (September 30, 1994), story by Darin Morgan, teleplay by Glen Morgan and James Wong.

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On November 23, 1644, British poet John Milton published Areopagitica, a pamphlet decrying censorship.

Revolutions of ages do not oft recover the loss of a rejected truth, for the want of which whole nations fare the worse.
John Milton, Areopagitica; A speech of Mr. John Milton for the Liberty of Unlicenc’d Printing, to the Parlament of England (1644).

The name “Areopagitica” references a speech by Isocrates, the “Areopagitikós” that itself referenced a hill in Athens, Greece, the Areopagus, which had been the site of an important tribunal that the Greek orator had hoped to restore. It may also refer to the defense that St. Paul made before the Areopagus against charges of promulgating alien gods and outré teachings (see Acts 17:18 – 34).