Give me the liberty to know, to utter, and to argue freely according to conscience, above all liberties.
For stories teach us, that liberty sought out of season, in a corrupt and degenerate age, brought Rome itself to a farther slavery: for liberty hath a sharp and double edge, fit only to be handled by just and virtuous men; to bad and dissolute, it becomes a mischief unwieldy in their own hands: neither is it completely given, but by them who have the happy skill to know what is grievance and unjust to a people, and how to remove it wisely; what good laws are wanting, and how to frame them substantially, that good men may enjoy the freedom which they merit, and the bad the curb which they need.
None can love freedom heartily, but good men; the rest love not freedom, but license.
The whole freedom of man consists either in spiritual or civil liberty.
Anarchy is the sure consequence of tyranny; for no power that is not limited by laws can ever be protected by them.
Sufficient to have stood, though free to fall.
No man who knows aught, can be so stupid to deny that all men naturally were born free.
For so I created them free and free they must remain.
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