John Milton — "For liberty hath a sharp and double edge, fit only to be handled by just and vir…"

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.
John Milton — John Milton Early Modern · Paradise Lost

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The Tenure of Kings and Magistrates (A witty, if slightly cynical, observation on the practicalities of liberty)

Date: 1649

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