Freedom Quotes
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"The freedom to speak truth is sacred and inviolable."Tacitus
"Freedom is not the absence of constraint, but the choice to be constrained by your own values."Martial
"Freedom is the power to choose your own path."Martial
"The human race is faced with a cruel choice: give up freedom or give up equality."Pliny the Elder
"True liberty is only found in the service of others."Pliny the Elder
"The greatest army is useless against the will of a free people."Pliny the Elder
"Who then is free? Only the one who desires nothing."Horace
"The price of freedom is eternal vigilance against those who would enslave."Livy
"Freedom is earned through discipline, not granted by chance."Pliny the Younger
"The mind is free when it questions everything."Pliny the Younger
"Despotism and liberty cannot long occupy the same ground."Suetonius
"A mind enslaved to prejudice is more chained than any prisoner in fetters."Ammianus Marcellinus
"Those bound by superstition have forged their own chains more surely than any conqueror could."Ammianus Marcellinus
"To question is to remain free; to accept without question is to invite slavery."Ammianus Marcellinus
"Nations unaccustomed to freedom are destroyed by it."Tacitus
"Freedom is the recognition of necessity."Tacitus
"The worst kind of slavery is the slavery of the mind."Tacitus
"A free people must be prepared to defend their freedom constantly."Tacitus
"The greatest luxury is freedom from fear."Tacitus
"Men are not bound by their chains but by their beliefs in those chains."Tacitus
"The love of liberty is the love of others; the love of power is the love of oneself."Tacitus
"Freedom without virtue is merely licentiousness."Tacitus
"To live under a tyrant is to be dead while still breathing."Tacitus
"To serve a tyrant is to betray oneself."Tacitus
"The poor man's freedom is worth more than the rich man's cage."Martial
"Freedom is not something that one people can bestow on another."Pliny the Elder
"A people that values its privileges above its principles soon loses both."Livy
"The love of liberty is the love of others."Livy
"The freedom to choose shapes the freedom to become."Livy
"Freedom is the right to tell people what they do not want to hear."Suetonius