“For so I created them free and free they must remain.”
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.”
“Thou canst not touch the freedom of my mind.”
Others on Freedom
Thomas Jefferson
8 quotes“The Tree of Liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrant. It is its natural manure.”
Nelson Mandela
8 quotes“Let freedom reign. The sun never set on so glorious a human achievement.”
Eisenhower
7 quotes“I think that people want peace so much that one of these days government had better get out of their way and let them ha...”
Epictetus
7 quotes“Freedom is not archived by satisfying desire, but by eliminating it.”
Malcolm X
6 quotes“You can't separate peace from freedom because no one can be at peace unless he has his freedom.”
James Madison
6 quotes“Liberty may be endangered by the abuse of liberty, but also by the abuse of power.”
Thomas Paine
6 quotes“Those who expect to reap the blessings of freedom must, like men, undergo the fatigue of supporting it.”
Frederick Douglass
6 quotes“Those who profess to favor freedom, and yet depreciate agitation, are men who want crops without plowing up the ground.”
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
6 quotes“To renounce freedom is to renounce one's humanity, one's rights as a man and equally one's duties.”
Spinoza
6 quotes“Freedom is absolutely necessary for the progress in science and the liberal arts.”
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
5 quotes“When you have robbed a man of everything he is no longer in your power. He is free again.”
Cicero
5 quotes“Liberty is rendered even more precious by the recollection of servitude.”