All JOHN RUSKIN Quotes about “Liberty”

“One evening, when I was yet in my nurse's arms, I wanted to touch the tea urn, which was boiling merrily ... My nurse would have taken me away from the urn, but my mother said "Let him touch it." So I touched it - and that was my first lesson in the meaning of liberty.”
“Wise laws and just restraints are to a noble nation not chains, but chains of mail, -- strength and defense, though something of an incumbrance.”
“How false is the conception, how frantic the pursuit, of that treacherous phantom which men call Liberty.”
“It is his restraint that is honorable to a person, not their liberty.”

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