Freedom Quotes by Marcus Tullius Cicero

The freedom of poetic license.

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

Peace is liberty in tranquillity.

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

To freemen, threats are impotent.

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

Empire and liberty.

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

Freedom is participation in power.

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

Peace is freedom in tranquility.

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

Our thoughts are free.

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

We are in bondage to the law so that we might be free

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

Liberty is rendered even more precious by the recollection of servitude.

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

“In times of war, the law falls silent. Silent enim leges inter arma ”

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

He does not seem to me to be a free man who does not sometimes do nothing.

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

What then is freedom? The power to live as one wishes.

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

Freedom is a possession of inestimable value.

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

We are bound by the law, so that we may be free.

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

Liberty consists in the power of doing that which is permitted by the law.

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

The purpose of education is to free the student from the tyranny of the present.

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

Freedom suppressed and again regained bites with keener fangs than freedom never endangered.

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

Freedom is a man's natural power of doing what he pleases, so far as he is not prevented by force or law.

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

Freedom suppressed and again regained bites with deeper fangs than freedom never endangered

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

The magistrates are the ministers for the laws, the judges their interpreters, the rest of us are servants of the law, that…

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

It is as hard for the good to suspect evil, as it is for the bad to suspect good.

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

Excessive liberty leads both nations and individuals into excessive slavery. [Lat., Nimia libertas et populis et privatis in nimiam servitutem cadit.]

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

To freemen, threats are impotent. [Lat., Nulla enim minantis auctoritas apud liberos est.]

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

To give and receive advice - the former with freedom, and yet without bitterness, the latter with patience and without irritation -…

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

The name of peace is sweet, and the thing itself is beneficial, but there is a great difference between peace and servitude.…

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

It is graceful in a man to think and to speak with propriety, to act with deliberation, and in every occurrence of…

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

Though liberty is established by law, we must be vigilant, for liberty to enslave us is always present under that very liberty.…

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

What is so beneficial to the people as liberty, which we see not only to be greedily sought after by men, but…

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

People don't know the value of what they have until it is gone: Freedom suppressed and again regained bites with keener fangs…

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

Do not blame Caesar, blame the people of Rome who have so enthusiastically acclaimed and adored him and rejoiced in their loss…

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

Too much liberty leads both men and nations to slavery.

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

This excessive licence, which the anarchists think is the only true freedom, provides the stock, as it were, from which a tyrant…

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

The recovery of freedom is so splendid a thing that we must not shun even death when seeking to recover it.

— Marcus Tullius Cicero