John Milton Quotes on Liberty

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

John Milton

Corruption, Liberty, Bondage, National Character, Moral Decay

2. “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.”

John Milton

Liberty, Virtue, Responsibility, Morality, Power

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

John Milton

Liberty, Conscience, Freedom, Human Rights, Morality

4. “The mountain nymph, sweet Liberty.”

John Milton

Liberty, Nature, Freedom, Personification, Poetic Imagery

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

John Milton

Liberty, License, Wisdom, Virtue, Social Responsibility

6. “I did but prompt the age to quit their clogs By the known rules of ancient liberty, When straight a barbarous noise environs me Of owls and cuckoos, asses, apes and dogs.”

John Milton

Liberty, Ignorance, Criticism, Wisdom, Societal Resistance

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

John Milton

Liberty, Knowledge, Free Speech, Conscience, Human Rights

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