Tacitus Quotes About Liberty
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The more numerous the laws, the more corrupt the government.
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[That form of] eloquence, the foster-child of licence, which fools call liberty. [Lat., Eloquentia, alumna licentiae, quam stulti libertatem vocabant.]
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Liberty is given by nature even to mute animals.
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When the State is corrupt, then the laws are most multiplied.
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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.
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Nature gives liberty even to dumb animals.
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Corruptisima republica plurimae leges.
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