John Milton — "For neither do the spirits damned lose all their virtue, lest bad men should boa…"

"Milton argued that might does not make right, rulers must conform to a higher law, and, if they fail to do so, those suffering under their rule are wholly justified in rebelling against their former l…"

"For what is more agreeable to the nature of man, than to be free?"

"He who would not be frustrate of his hope to write well hereafter in laudable things, ought himself to be a true poem; that is, a composition and pattern of the best and honorablest things."

"No light, but rather darkness visible."

"Abashed the devil stood, and felt how awful goodness is."