By free-thinking 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 it, and in judging of it according to the seeming force or weakness of the evidence.
-- Anthony Collins, Discourse on Free-thinking (1713), quoted from George H. Smith, Why Atheism? (2000) p. 175
[W]e 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.
-- Anthony Collins, Discourse on Free-thinking (1713), quoted from George H. Smith, Atheism, Ayn Rand, and Other Heresies
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