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