Marcus Tullius Cicero
Marcus Tullius Cicero
Marcus Tullius Cicerowas a Roman philosopher, politician, lawyer, orator, political theorist, consul, and constitutionalist. He came from a wealthy municipal family of the Roman equestrian order, and was one of Rome's greatest orators and prose stylists...
NationalityRoman
ProfessionStatesman
bondage free freedom law might
We are in bondage to the law so that we might be free
again bites deeper endangered freedom suppressed
Freedom suppressed and again regained bites with deeper fangs than freedom never endangered
freedom threat freeman
To freemen, threats are impotent.
freedom philosophical possession
Freedom is a possession of inestimable value.
freedom philosophical men
Freedom is a man's natural power of doing what he pleases, so far as he is not prevented by force or law.
freedom power threat
To freemen, threats are impotent. [Lat., Nulla enim minantis auctoritas apud liberos est.]
freedom recovery splendid
The recovery of freedom is so splendid a thing that we must not shun even death when seeking to recover it.
freedom men people
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.
freedom liberty tyranny
Liberty is rendered even more precious by the recollection of servitude.
freedom evil hard
It is as hard for the good to suspect evil, as it is for the bad to suspect good.
freedom libertarian fangs
Freedom suppressed and again regained bites with keener fangs than freedom never endangered.
bull handsome kidnapped
I like myself, but I won't say I'm as handsome as the bull that kidnapped Europe.
directed good government ought receive trust
The administration of government, like guardianship ought to be directed to the good of those who confer, not of those who receive the trust
eyes portrait
The countenance is the portrait of the mind, the eyes are its informers