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