Quote by Niccolò Machiavelli

“And it is plain enough, not from this instance only, but from many everywhere, that freedom is an excellent thing since even the Athenians,…

— Jim Lacey

“An armed man is a little republic unto himself”

— Dan Baum

“Athens, or Greece in general, was a virile world; like the Roman Empire. But I can't understand the idea that it is the greatest…

— Mwanandeke Kindembo

“In the Greek Olympics, women, slaves, and foreigners never took part. Not in Greek democracy either.”

— Eduardo Galeano

“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

Rome remained free for four hundred years and Sparta eight hundred, although their citizens were armed all that time; but many other states that…

— Anonymous

“But what about the apparent absurdity of the idea of dignity, freedom, and reason, sustained by extreme military discipline, including of the practice of…

— Slavoj Žižek

All the citizens of a state cannot be equally powerful, but they may be equally free

— Voltaire

“Political liberty—that is, the ability of societies to rule themselves—does not depend only on the degree to which a society can mobilize opposition to…

— Francis Fukuyama

“Rome would never have need of a dictator if she had such men in office, men so united in heart, as ready to obey…

— Livy

“The national unity of a free people depends upon a sufficiently even balance of political power to make it impracticable for the administration to…

— Walter Lippmann

Rome was great in arms, in government, in law.

— Goldwin Smith