I am as free as nature first ...

I am as free as nature first made man,
Ere the base laws of servitude began,
When wild in woods the noble savage ran.

I am as free as nature first made man, Ere the base laws of servitude began, When wild in woods the noble savage ran.

John Dryden

More phrases

All the great things are simple, and many can be expressed in a single word: freedom, justice, honor, duty, mercy, hope.

Winston Churchill

I know but one freedom and that is the freedom of the mind.

Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

Freedom is not worth having if it does not connote freedom to err.

The amount of happiness that you have depends on the amount of freedom you have in your heart.

Thích Nhất Hạnh

Without freedom of thought, there can be no such thing as wisdom - and no such thing as public liberty without freedom of speech.

Benjamin Franklin

Quotes from the same author

Fortune befriends the bold.

John Dryden

A thing well said will be wit in all languages.

John Dryden

Men are but children of a larger growth.

John Dryden

What, start at this! when sixty years have spread. Their grey experience o'er thy hoary head? Is this the all observing age could gain? Or hast thou known the world so long in vain?

John Dryden

Or hast thou known the world so long in vain?

John Dryden