Complaints Quote by John Milton

“Men are qualified for civil liberty in exact proportion to their disposition to put moral chains upon their own appetites, — in proportion as…

— Edmund Burke

It is not infrequent to hear men declaim loudly upon liberty, who, if we may judge by the whole tenor of their actions, mean…

— Samuel Adams

“I believe that liberty is the only genuinely valuable thing that men have invented, at least in the field of government, in a thousand…

— H.L. Mencken

It is not unfrequent to hear men declaim loudly upon liberty, who, if we may judge by the whole tenor of their actions, mean…

— Samuel Adams

“Civil, or Social Liberty: the nature and limits of the power which can be legitimately exercised by society over the individual.”

— John Stuart Mill

“The more a government strives to curtail freedom of speech, the more obstinately is it resisted; not indeed by the avaricious,... but by those…

— Will Durant

Make men wise, and by that very operation you make them free. Civil liberty follows as a consequence of this; no usurped power can…

— William Godwin

A struggle for liberty is in itself respectable and glorious. . . . When conducted with magnanimity, justice and humanity, it ought to command…

— Alexander Hamilton

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

— John Milton

“It is the right of a free individual to be unhindered in their liberty! Especially to fail in their endeavors! Only in this manner…

— Keith Parfitt

“Government is a contrivance of human wisdom to provide for human wants. Men have a right that these wants should be provided for by…

— Edmund Burke

“Freedom can never yield its fullness of blessings so long as the law or its administration places the smallest obstacle in the pathway of…

— James A. Garfield