Freedom / Liberty
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Freedom · Liberty · freedom · liberty
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Letters to Lucilius
Inner and political freedom from passions, riches, and tyranny, prized above safety or wealth.
liberty cannot be had for nothing.
thus the mind is to be drawn out of its most wretched slavery and claimed for liberty.
And of him too you may say that no less than Socrates he gave himself up, amid slaves, to liberty, unless perhaps you think that Gnaeus Pompey and Caesar and Crassus were the allies of liberty.
The Genius of the Common Law
The value of freedom, declared to be the Common Law's sister and the spirit of its greatest achievements.
For if there is any virtue in the Common Law whereby she stands for more than intellectual excellence in a special kind of learning, it is that Freedom is her sister, and in the spirit of freedom her greatest work has ever been done.