Freedom Quotes

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

28646 quotes

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