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Liberty Quotes by John Milton
- Nations grow corrupt, love bondage more than liberty; bondage with ease than strenuous liberty.
- The mountain nymph, sweet Liberty.
- Behold now this vast city [London]; a city of refuge, the mansion-house of liberty, encompassed and surrounded with His protection.
- Daughter to that good Earl, once President Of England's Council, and her Treasury, Who lived in both, unstained with gold or fee, And left them…
- License they mean when they cry Liberty; For who loves that, must first be wise and good.
- When complaints are freely heard, deeply considered and speedily reformed, then is the utmost bound of civil liberty attained that wise men look for.
- Give me the liberty to know, to utter, and to argue freely according to conscience, above all liberties.
- How oft, in nations gone corrupt, And by their own devices brought down to servitude, That man chooses bondage before liberty. Bondage with ease before…
- how wearisom Eternity so spent in worship paid To whom we hate. Let us not then pursue By force impossible, by leave obtain'd Unacceptable, though…
- For stories teach us, that liberty sought out of season, in a corrupt and degenerate age, brought Rome itself to a farther slavery: for liberty…
- God is thy law, thou mine: to know no more / Is woman's happiest knowledge, and her praise.
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