Samuel Taylor Coleridge Quotes about Liberty

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A people are free in proportion as they form their own opinions.

A people are free in proportion as they form their own opinions.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

People, Atheism, Liberty

Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1970). “The Collected Works of Samuel Taylor Coleridge: The Watchman, edited by L. Patton”

The necessity for external government to man is in an inverse ratio to the vigor of his self-government. Where the last is most complete, the first is least wanted. Hence, the more virtue the more liberty.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Men, Self, Liberty

Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Henry Nelson Coleridge (1854). “The complete works of Samuel Taylor Coleridge: With an introductory essay upon his philosophical and theological opinions”, p.458

Thou rising Sun! thou blue rejoicing Sky! Yea! every thing that is and will be free! Bear witness for me, whereso'er ye be, With what deep worship I have still adored The spirit of divinest Liberty.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Blue, Sky, Liberty

"France: An Ode". Poem by Samuel Taylor Coleridge, 1798.

Enlist the interests of stern Morality and religious Enthusiasm in the cause of Political Liberty, as in the time of the old Puritans, and it will be irresistible.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Religious, Political, Liberty

Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Henry Nelson Coleridge (1851). “Specimens of the Table Talk of Samuel Taylor Coleridge”, p.68