John Milton Quotes

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

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

He that studieth revenge keepeth his own wounds green, which otherwise would heal and do well.

He who reigns within himself and rules his passions, desires, and fears is more than a king.

Where there is much desire to learn, there of necessity will be much arguing, much writing, many opinions; for opinions in good men is but knowledge in the making.

He who kills a man kills a reasonable creature, but he who destroys a good book kills reason itself.

Who overcomes by force hath overcome but half his foe.

No man who know aught can be so stupid to deny that all men naturally were born free.

The mind is its own place, and in itself can make a Heaven of Hell, a Hell of Heaven.

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

`Tis Chastity, my brother, Chastity: She that has that, is clad in complete steel

Far from all resort of mirth, / Save the cricket on the hearth!