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He was a graduate of Christ College, Cambridge.
He was a graduate of Christ College, Cambridge.
He was an opponent of King [[Charles I]] and supporter of [[Oliver Cromwell]]. In politics he advocated [[republicanism]] and a form of [[Libertarianism]]. His ''Areopagitica'' (1644) strongly condemned the censorship of ideas and has become a canononical work regarding [[Freedom of Speech]].
He was an opponent of King [[Charles I]] and a leading spokesman for [[Oliver Cromwell]]. In politics he advocated [[republicanism]] and a form of [[Libertarianism]]. Kings were not needed to make a nation, he argued, because it was the cirtue of the people that mattered:
:The happiness of a nation consists in true religion, piety, justice, prudence, temperance, fortitude and the contempt of avarice and ambition. They in whomsoever these virtues dwell eminently, need not kings to make them happy, but are the architects of their own happiness, and whether to themselves or others are not less kings.
Milton's ''Areopagitica'' (1644) strongly condemned the censorship of ideas and has become a canononical work regarding [[Freedom of Speech]].
==Further reading==
==Further reading==