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;

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

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

What then?

they fought and contended for freedom, when it was not with them.

For these prescribe nothing else than what is advantageous to them.

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.

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.

on the contrary, they have got just the opposite of freedom;

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;

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

If, however, you do not succeed in these objects, this much you will at any rate easily accomplish,—the liberation of the cities which are on the coast of Asia.

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.

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

to obey god is freedom.

Therefore we must make our way out into freedom.

And nothing bestows this freedom except indifference to fortune.

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

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

next, you shall be called hereafter free, just as you were born, and shall find a worthy marriage.

Freedom and Security.

—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.

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

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.

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?

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

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?

Now I am like a despot;

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

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