“Thou canst not touch the freedom of my mind.”
More from John Milton on Freedom
“None can love freedom heartily but good men - the rest love not freedom but licence.”
“Give me the liberty to know to think to believe and to utter freely according to conscience above all other liberties.”
“Give me the liberty to know, to utter, and to argue freely according to conscience, above all liberties.”
“For so I created them free and free they must remain.”
Others on Freedom
Thomas Jefferson
8 quotes“no people can be both ignorant and free.”
Nelson Mandela
8 quotes“Crime must be brought under control... Freedom without civility, freedom without the ability to live in peace, was not t...”
Epictetus
7 quotes“You may fetter my leg, but Zeus himself cannot get the better of my free will.”
Eisenhower
7 quotes“If you want total security, go to prison. There you're fed, clothed, given medical care and so on. The only thing lackin...”
James Madison
6 quotes“Liberty may be endangered by the abuses of liberty as well as by the abuses of power.”
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
6 quotes“Man is born free, and everywhere he is in chains.”
Malcolm X
6 quotes“You are either free or not free”
Thomas Paine
6 quotes“For though the flame of liberty may sometimes cease to shine, the coal can never expire.”
Frederick Douglass
6 quotes“Those who profess to favor freedom, and yet depreciate agitation, are men who want crops without plowing up the ground.”
Spinoza
6 quotes“He alone is free who lives with free consent under the entire guidance of reason.”
Daniel Webster
5 quotes“A country cannot subsist well without liberty, nor liberty without virtue.”
Ronald Reagan
5 quotes“Concentrated power has always been the enemy of liberty”