John Milton, (1608-1674) English Poet Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Comment on this quote Share via Email Print this Page [1-14] of 14 John Milton quotesJohn Milton QuotesJohn Milton Nations grow corrupt, love bondage more than liberty; bondage with ease than strenuous liberty.~ John Milton No man who knows aught, can be so stupid to deny that all men naturally were born free.~ John Milton None can love freedom heartily, but good men; the rest love not freedom, but license.~ John Milton The whole freedom of man consists either in spiritual or civil liberty.~ John Milton There is no truth sure enough to justify persecution.~ John Milton When complaints are freely heard, deeply considered, and speedily reformed, then is the utmost bound of civil liberty obtained that wise men look for.~ John Milton None can love freedom but good men; the rest love not freedom, but license, which never hath more scope than under tyrants.~ John Milton Here the great art lies, to discern in what the law is to bid restraint and punishment, and in what things persuasion only is to work.~ John Milton For books are not absolutely dead things, but do contain a potency of life in them; they do preserve as in a vial the purest efficacy and extraction of that living intellect that bred them.~ John Milton License they mean when they cry, Liberty! For who loves that, must first be wise and good.~ John Milton Give me the liberty to know, to utter, and to argue freely according to conscience, above all liberties.~ John Milton The conquer'd, also, and enslaved by war, Shall, with their freedom lost, all virtue lose.~ John Milton For what can war but endless war still breed?~ John Milton Sufficient to have stood, though free to fall.~ John Milton Share on Facebook Tweet Email Print