freedom Quotes

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.

. . . the man is free, we say, who exists for his own sake and not for another's.

Democracy is the form of government in which the free are rulers.

There is nothing grand or noble in having the use of a slave, in so far as he is a slave; or in issuing commands about necessary things. But it is an error to suppose that every sort of rule... ...

Someone who can be, and therefore is, owned by another, and who understands reason but doesn't fully possess it, is a natural slave.

He who can be, and therefore is, another's, and he who participates in reason enough to apprehend, but not to have, is a slave by nature.