John Milton Quotes about Freedom

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

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

John Milton

Love, Freedom, Men

The Tenure of Kings and Magistrates (1649)

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

John Milton

Freedom, Giving, Liberty

'Areopagitica' (1644) p. 34

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

John Milton

Freedom, Law, Democracy

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

John Milton

Spiritual, Freedom, Men

John Milton, James Augustus St. John (1871). “The Prose Works of John Milton ...: With a Preface, Preliminary Remarks, and Notes”, p.133

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.

John Milton

Freedom, Men, Skills

John Milton (1851). “The Prose Works of John Milton: With a Biographical Introduction”, p.245