freedom Quotes

A democracy exists whenever those who are free and are not well-off, being in the majority, are in sovereign control of government, an oligarchy when control lies with the rich and better-born, these being few.

To be always seeking after the useful does not become free and exalted souls.

In a polity, each citizen is to possess his own arms, which are not supplied or owned by the state.

Governments which have a regard to the common interest are constituted in accordance with strict principles of justice, and are therefore true forms; but those which regard only the interest of the rulers are all defective and perverted forms, for... ...

The form of government is a democracy when the free, who are also poor and the majority, govern, and an oligarchy when the rich and the noble govern, they being at the same time few in number.

For those who possess and can wield arms are in a position to decide whether the constitution is to continue or not

Those who cannot bravely face danger are the slaves of their attackers.

He who is by nature not his own but another's man is by nature a slave.

And what has come to prevail in democracies is the very reverse of beneficial, in those, that is, which are regarded as the most democratically run. The reason for this lies in the failure properly to define liberty. For there... ...

If liberty and equality, as is thought by some, are chiefly to be found in democracy, they will be best attained when all persons alike share in government to the utmost.