Freedom Quotes
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"Your desires make you a slave to fortune."Horace
"Better to reign in a cottage than serve in a castle."Horace
"Fear is the prison of the soul; freedom is its release."Pliny the Younger
"The greatest threat to freedom is the absence of criticism."Tacitus
"Those who would sacrifice liberty for security deserve neither."Tacitus
"The greatest prison is the prison of our own making."Tacitus
"Freedom without discipline inevitably descends into chaos."Ammianus Marcellinus
"The preservation of freedom requires eternal vigilance and sacrifice."Ammianus Marcellinus
"Destiny is not a matter of chance; it is a matter of choice."Pliny the Elder
"The greatest freedom is freedom from the opinions of others."Pliny the Elder
"Do not despise poverty; many have found it the source of freedom."Cato the Younger
"Better to die standing than live on your knees."Cato the Younger
"It is forbidden to forbid."Cato the Younger
"Freedom is the right to tell people what they do not want to hear."Cato the Younger
"Freedom lies in being bold."Livy
"Freedom is the right to choose one's own path."Livy
"The budding of virtue is the beginning of liberty"Cato the Elder
"Necessity is the argument of tyrants"Cato the Elder
"The price of freedom is eternal vigilance"Cato the Elder
"To live is to choose; to choose wisely is to be free"Cato the Elder
"Freedom without responsibility is chaos."Horace
"The price of freedom is eternal vigilance."Horace
"To be or not to be is to have choices."Horace
"The only limits that really matter are the ones we impose on ourselves."Pliny the Younger
"The only way to deal with an unfree world is to become so absolutely free that very existence is an act of rebellion."Pliny the Younger
"What is freedom without order? Chaos in disguise."Diocletian
"The greatest freedom is the freedom to choose one's own path."Constantine I
"Freedom without responsibility leads to chaos."Constantine I
"Freedom is the right of all men."Septimius Severus
"The soul cannot be enslaved."Septimius Severus