Freedom

To be slave to nothing — to no compulsion, to no chance — and to bring fortune down to a level with oneself.

Freedom perishes unless we despise those things which lay a yoke upon us.

Be sure, therefore, to be men worthy of the freedom you possess, upon the possession of which I congratulate you.

As tokens of these victories we may, indeed, still behold the trophies, but the strongest witness to them is the freedom of the states in which you were born and bred;

To fall under, then, and to yield to the passions is the utmost slavery, just as, indeed, to master these is the only freedom.

"Unenslaved and unfulled by slavish pleasure, they love the immortal kingdom and freedom.

For the objects at stake in a war against the barbarian are nothing less than our country, our life, our habits, our freedom, and all such blessings.

Freedom.

Then we must call freedom the knowledge of what is allowed and what forbidden, and slavery the ignorance of what is permitted and what not.

Let it not be, then, that, just as of the kingship of that time such were the signs, so now too freedom must have such tokens, and a man must walk about with a felt cap upon his head, and that otherwise we shall not be able to recognize the free man from the slave.

Then they will no longer say that to be subject to no man, nor to do whatever one wishes, is freedom.

Apart from that, it is unbearable that not all this alone but slavery too should be brought upon the Greeks by you Athenians, who have always been known as givers of freedom to many.

Nevertheless in our zeal for freedom we will defend ourselves to the best of our ability.

Such was their answer to Alexander, but to the Spartan envoys they said, “It was most human that the Lacedaemonians should fear our making an agreement with the barbarian.

But, monstrous above all things would be our conduct if, knowing well that the Athenians abandoned their country to preserve the freedom of the Hellenes, we should lack the courage to give up our city even to preserve our own lives, and should refuse, when it behoves us to set the example for others in such deeds, even to imitate the conduct of the Athenians.

Leaving their own country, and adopting Freedom as their fatherland, they shared the dangers of war with us, and wrought such a change in their fortunes that, after being deprived of their own possessions for but a few days, they became for many years masters of the rest of the world.

And yet those who wish to be free ought to shun a peace whose terms are dictated by the enemy as being not far removed from slavery, and should make treaties only when they have defeated their adversaries, or when they have made their forces equal to those of the enemy;

and you will also induce many of the other satraps to throw off the King’s power if you promise them “freedom” and scatter broadcast over Asia that word which, when sown among the Hellenes, has broken up both our empire and that of the Lacedaemonians.

Yet one may well marvel at them if they really believe that the power which was subdued to the will of a mere barbarian—an ill-bred barbarian at that—and collected in the cause of slavery, could not be scattered by a man of the blood of Hellas, of ripe experience in warfare, in the cause of freedom—and that too although they know that while it is in all cases difficult to construct a thing, to des …

and the rest of the nations, if by your hands they are delivered from barbaric despotism and are brought under the protection of Hellas.

And the self-ruling Aśvins, the Sun, light of lights is the Sun — may Varuṇa make for you the widest freedom;

And nothing bestows this freedom except indifference to fortune.

to obey god is freedom.

Therefore we must make our way out into freedom.

freedom is to set the mind above injuries, and to make oneself the one source from which one's own joys come, and to draw external things apart from oneself, lest one's life be passed unquiet, in dread of everyone's laughter, everyone's tongue.

For when we succeed, then there will be opportunity to rejoice and exult in freedom.

O seed of Atreus, through how many sufferings have you sprouted up at last in freedom, fulfilled by this day’s enterprise!

For in my eyes this alone can bring us release from the misery of the past.

—The new Republican materials, in the persons of the Commons, on whose virtue depends the freedom of England.

the liberty of choosing an House of Commons from out of their own body—and it is easy to see that when Republican virtue fails, slavery ensues.

Freedom and Security.

Once on a time when Chaerephon made inquiry at the Delphic oracle concerning me, in the presence of many people Apollo answered that no man was more free than I, or more just, or more prudent.

Who in the world more free,—for I accept neither gifts nor pay from any one?

Then do you think that the man is free who is ruled by bodily pleasures and is unable to do what is best because of them?

Possibly, in fact, to do what is best appears to you to be freedom, and so you think that to have masters who will prevent such activity is bondage?

Tell me, Euthydemus, he said, do you think that freedom is a noble and splendid possession both for individuals and for communities?

So much, at least, every one admits, that assurance is preferable to fear, freedom to slavery, being the recipient of attention to being the giver of it, the confidence of one’s country to its distrust.

and I should take more delight in being a slave than in being a free man, if Cleinias would deign to be my master.

and I have the free man’s privilege of going abroad or staying here at home as I please.