Tacitus Quotes About Liberty

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  • The more numerous the laws, the more corrupt the government.

    Peace   Freedom   War  
    "Annals". Book by Tacitus, Book III, 27,
  • [That form of] eloquence, the foster-child of licence, which fools call liberty. [Lat., Eloquentia, alumna licentiae, quam stulti libertatem vocabant.]

  • Liberty is given by nature even to mute animals.

    Freedom  
    "Annals". Book by Tacitus, IV. 17,
  • When the State is corrupt, then the laws are most multiplied.

    Law  
  • The word liberty has been falsely used by persons who, being degenerately profligate in private life, and mischievous in public, had no hope left but in fomenting discord.

  • Nature gives liberty even to dumb animals.

    Giving  
  • Corruptisima republica plurimae leges.

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