Marcus Tullius Cicero Quotes About Liberty

Quotes about: Liberty

• The budget should be balanced, the treasury refilled, public debt reduced, the arrogance of officialdom tempered and controlled, and the assistance to foreign lands curtailed, lest Rome become bankrupt.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Rome, Land, Political

• Freedom suppressed and again regained bites with keener fangs than freedom never endangered.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Freedom, Liberty, Libertarian

  Cicero, Marcus Tullius Cicero (2006). “De Officiis Or on Duties on Obligations”, p.145, ReadHowYouWant.com

• 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 endangered.... Liberty is rendered even more precious by the recollection of servitude. Don't wait till freedom is gone before you enjoy, value, support, protect and make the most of it!

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Gratitude, People, Support

• A bureaucrat is the most despicable of men, though he is needed as vultures are needed, but one hardly admires vultures whom bureaucrats so strangely resemble. I have yet to meet a bureaucrat who was not petty, dull, almost witless, crafty or stupid, an oppressor or a thief, a holder of little authority in which he delights, as a boy delights in possessing a vicious dog. Who can trust such creatures?

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Dog, Stupid, Boys

• Though liberty is established by law, we must be vigilant, for liberty to enslave us is always present under that very liberty. Our Constitution speaks of the "general welfare of the people." Under that phrase all sorts of excesses can be employed by lusting tyrants to make us bondsmen.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Tyrants, Law, People

• Too much liberty leads both men and nations to slavery.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Men, Liberty, Slavery

• More laws, less justice.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Law, Justice, Liberty

• Liberty is rendered even more precious by the recollection of servitude.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Freedom, Liberty, Tyranny

• 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, and to be prepared in all things.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Freedom, Men, People

• In nothing do humans approach so nearly to the gods as doing good to others.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Health, Religion, Liberty

• Peace is liberty in tranquillity.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Peace, Philosophical, Liberty

  Marcus Tullius Cicero (1871). “The Orations of Marcus Tullius Cicero”, p.66

• Liberty consists in the power of doing that which is permitted by the law.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Philosophical, Law, Liberty

• Excessive liberty leads both nations and individuals into excessive slavery.
  [Lat., Nimia libertas et populis et privatis in nimiam servitutem cadit.]

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Liberty, Slavery, Individual

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