If some great Power would agree to make me always think what is true and do what is right, on condition of being turned into a sort of clock and wound up every morning before I got out of bed, I should instantly close with the offer. The only freedom I care about is the freedom to do right; the freedom to do wrong I am ready to part with on the cheapest terms to any one who will take it of me.

"On Descartes' Discourse touching the method of using one's reason rightly and of seeking scientific truth" (1870).

Descartes' Discourse on Method (1870)[mathcs.clarku.edu]