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Freedom Quotes by 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.
- Freedom is a possession of inestimable value.
- What then is freedom? The power to live as one wishes.
- To freemen, threats are impotent.
- Peace is freedom in tranquility.
- It is as hard for the good to suspect evil, as it is for the bad to suspect good.
- Freedom suppressed and again regained bites with keener fangs than freedom never endangered.
- To give and receive advice - the former with freedom, and yet without bitterness, the latter with patience and without irritation - is peculiarly appropriate…
- This excessive licence, which the anarchists think is the only true freedom, provides the stock, as it were, from which a tyrant grows.
- Do not blame Caesar, blame the people of Rome who have so enthusiastically acclaimed and adored him and rejoiced in their loss of freedom and…
- The name of peace is sweet, and the thing itself is beneficial, but there is a great difference between peace and servitude. Peace is freedom…
- What is so beneficial to the people as liberty, which we see not only to be greedily sought after by men, but also by beasts,…
- People don't know the value of what they have until it is gone: Freedom suppressed and again regained bites with keener fangs than freedom never…
- The freedom of poetic license.
- Freedom is participation in power.
- Liberty is rendered even more precious by the recollection of servitude.
- Freedom suppressed and again regained bites with deeper fangs than freedom never endangered
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