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 price of freedom is eternal vigilance, and eternal doubt of one's own judgment."
Pompey
H
"The greatest gift is the freedom to choose one's path."
Hannibal
H
"The cost of freedom is eternal vigilance."
Hannibal
S
"Freedom is the only worthy goal of mankind."
Solon
L
"Freedom is not given, it is taken."
Lycurgus
L
"No one is free when others are oppressed."
Lycurgus
R
"The greatest freedom comes from serving something larger than yourself."
Romulus
T
"A ruler who cannot be questioned cannot be trusted."
Tarquin the Proud
T
"A kingdom under a tyrant's heel dreams only of freedom."
Tarquin the Proud
T
"The exile of a tyrant is the liberation of a nation."
Tarquin the Proud
A
"I would rather die standing than live kneeling."
Alcibiades
A
"In diversity lies the strength of nations."
Alcibiades
C
"The power to vote is the power to shape your own destiny."
Cleisthenes
C
"Break the chains of oligarchy, and you break the chains of human suffering."
Cleisthenes
C
"A man who cannot vote is a man without a country."
Cleisthenes
C
"The citizen who votes shapes the laws that govern his own life."
Cleisthenes
C
"To be governed is to have a say in one's own governance."
Cleisthenes
C
"To silence a man's vote is to silence his existence."
Cleisthenes
C
"The sound of many voices in assembly is the sound of freedom."
Cleisthenes
C
"The citizen who participates in governance participates in his own destiny."
Cleisthenes
C
"The vote is the voice of those who have no other voice."
Cleisthenes
C
"The man who votes for his own laws is no man's slave."
Cleisthenes
L
"Freedom without discipline is merely chaos wearing liberty's mask."
Lycurgus
S
"The freedom we win is only as lasting as the virtue we maintain."
Scipio Africanus
S
"Freedom is a responsibility, not merely a right."
Scipio Africanus
S
"No one can be truly free who is enslaved by his desires."
Solon
S
"Freedom requires responsibility from its citizens."
Solon
C
"A man bound to power by chains of his own making deserves his bondage."
Cincinnatus
C
"A republic that cannot trust its citizens to lay down power is doomed to tyranny."
Cincinnatus
C
"To be remembered is to be bound forever; to be forgotten is to be truly free."
Cincinnatus