Freedom Quote by Niccolò Machiavelli

But in Republics there is a stronger vitality, a fiercer hatred, a keener thirst for revenge. The memory of their former freedom will not…

— Niccolo Machiavelli

“The freest people, like the freest man, is always in danger of re-lapsing into servitude. Wars are almost always fatal to Republics. They create…

— Albert Pike

“that the whole nation, tired of war, actually only longed for order, quiet, and a little security and bourgeois life. And, secretly it hated…

— Stefan Zweig

“Many have imagined republics and principalities which have never been seen or known to exist in reality, for how we live is so far…

— Anonymous

“that in the midst of murders and civil wars, our republic became stronger [and] its citizens infused with virtues.… A little bit of agitation…

— Nassim Nicholas Taleb

“Don’t you understand that freedom depends upon the continuing possibility of rebel violence. When violence becomes unthinkable, freedom dies…”

— Samuel B. Southwell

“Dissent has been crushed, and freedom is a memory, all in the name of peace and order.”

— Paul S. Kemp

“A people without memory cannot resist tyranny, and a nation without heroes cannot produce them.”

— Brutus

“The memory of their former freedom will not let them rest; so that the safest course is either to destroy them, or to go…

— Niccolò Machiavelli

“Freedom lost to any regime, be it communist or liberal, steals the very breath of democracy”

— James William Steven Parker

“We had become a country that valued security over freedom, power over justice, and war over peace. I wanted”

— Robert Kroese

“Only a virtuous people are capable of freedom. As nations get corrupt and vicious, they have more need of masters.”

— Benjamin Franklin