John Milton Quotes About Freedom
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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 hath a sharp and double edge, fit only to be handled by just and virtuous men; to bad and dissolute, it becomes a mischief unwieldy in their own hands: neither is it completely given, but by them who have the happy skill to know what is grievance and unjust to a people, and how to remove it wisely; what good laws are wanting, and how to frame them substantially, that good men may enjoy the freedom which they merit, and the bad the curb which they need.
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No man who knows aught, can be so stupid to deny that all men naturally were born free.
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Sufficient to have stood, though free to fall.
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None can love freedom heartily, but good men; the rest love not freedom, but license.
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For so I created them free and free they must remain.
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Give me the liberty to know, to utter, and to argue freely according to conscience, above all liberties.
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The whole freedom of man consists either in spiritual or civil liberty.
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Anarchy is the sure consequence of tyranny; for no power that is not limited by laws can ever be protected by them.
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