Freedom Quotes

The most fought-for idea in human history, explored by those who won it, lost it, and fought to keep it.

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"To despise money is to despise freedom."
Juvenal
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"The strongest chains are those we forge for ourselves."
Juvenal
J
"The weight of expectation crushes the free spirit."
Juvenal
J
"Freedom is the right to fail without permission."
Juvenal
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"We are enslaved not by external chains, but by our passions and desires."
Porphyry
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"Freedom is not the absence of constraint, but the right to choose."
Apuleius
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"Freedom is the birthright of every person."
Martial
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"Freedom is worth fighting for."
Martial
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"We are all bound by the chains of our own making."
Ammianus Marcellinus
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"Freedom is the right to tell people what they do not want to hear."
Suetonius
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"Liberty is always unfinished business."
Suetonius
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"Tyranny is the abuse of power made legal."
Tacitus
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"It is the nature of man to resist oppression and love liberty."
Tacitus
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"Freedom is the foundation of all other rights."
Tacitus
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"Freedom without virtue is merely another form of slavery."
Juvenal
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"Who then is free? The wise man who can command himself."
Horace
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"To save a man's life against his will is the same as killing him."
Horace
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"It is forbidden to forbid."
Horace
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"It is not possible for a man to be freed from slavery to his lusts."
Horace
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"The only way to deal with an unfree world is to become so absolutely free that merely to exist is an act of rebellion."
Horace
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"Who then is free? The one who wisely is lord over himself."
Horace
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"Freedom without responsibility is merely indulgence."
Martial
M
"Freedom earned is freedom appreciated."
Martial
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"Freedom is the greatest treasure."
Livy
L
"The greatest threat to freedom is an apathetic populace."
Livy
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"Freedom is the foundation of all happiness."
Pliny the Younger
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"Freedom is the birthright of every human being."
Pliny the Younger
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"To live authentically requires rejecting the false values imposed by society."
Ammianus Marcellinus
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"The preservation of freedom requires constant vigilance against its encroachment."
Ammianus Marcellinus
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"Freedom without responsibility is merely chaos in disguise."
Tacitus