Freedom Quotes by John Milton

“Go; for thy stay, not free, absents thee more.”

— John Milton

Sufficient to have stood, though free to fall.

— John Milton

Thou canst not touch the freedom of my mind.

— John Milton

For so I created them free and free they must remain.

— John Milton

The mountain nymph, sweet Liberty.

— John Milton

Who can in reason then or right assume monarchy over such as live by right his equals, if in power or splendor…

— John Milton

None can love freedom heartily, but good men; the rest love not freedom, but licence.

— John Milton

The liberty of conscience, which above all other things ought to be to all men dearest and most precious.

— John Milton

“No man [...] can be so stupid to deny that all men naturally were born free, being the image and resemblance of…

— John Milton

None can love freedom heartily, but good men; the rest love not freedom, but license.

— John Milton

The conquer'd, also, and enslaved by war, Shall, with their freedom lost, all virtue lose.

— John Milton

Nations grow corrupt, love bondage more than liberty; bondage with ease than strenuous liberty.

— John Milton

None can love freedom heartily but good men; the rest love not freedom, but license which never hath more scope than under…

— John Milton

“But what more oft in Nations grown corrupt, And by thir vices brought to servitude, Than to love Bondage more than Liberty,…

— John Milton

“Shalt thou give law to God, shalt thou dispute With Him the points of liberty who made Thee what thou art and…

— John Milton

When complaints are freely heard, deeply considered and speedily reformed, then is the utmost bound of civil liberty attained that wise men…

— John Milton

I did but prompt the age to quit their clogs By the known rules of ancient liberty, When straight a barbarous noise…

— John Milton

How oft, in nations gone corrupt, And by their own devices brought down to servitude, That man chooses bondage before liberty. Bondage…

— John Milton

For liberty hath a sharp and double edge, fit only to be handled by just and virtuous men; to bad and dissolute,…

— John Milton

how wearisom Eternity so spent in worship paid To whom we hate. Let us not then pursue By force impossible, by leave…

— John Milton

For stories teach us, that liberty sought out of season, in a corrupt and degenerate age, brought Rome itself to a farther…

— John Milton

Daughter to that good Earl, once President Of England's Council, and her Treasury, Who lived in both, unstained with gold or fee,…

— John Milton

“Whose but his own? ingrate, he had of mee All he could have; I made him just and right, Sufficient to have…

— John Milton

Is it just or reasonable, that most voices against the main end of government should enslave the less number that would be…

— John Milton

The whole freedom of man consists either in spiritual or civil liberty.

— John Milton

Behold now this vast city [London]; a city of refuge, the mansion-house of liberty, encompassed and surrounded with His protection.

— John Milton

Anarchy is the sure consequence of tyranny; for no power that is not limited by laws can ever be protected by them.

— John Milton

Give me the liberty to know, to utter, and to argue freely according to conscience, above all liberties.

— John Milton

License they mean when they cry Liberty; For who loves that, must first be wise and good.

— John Milton