Marcus Tullius Cicero Slavery Quotations

To some extent I liken slavery to death.

Excessive liberty leads both nations and individuals into excessive slavery. [Lat., Nimia libertas et populis et privatis in nimiam servitutem cadit.]

When time and need require, we should resist with all our might, and prefer death to slavery and disgrace.

He is sometimes slave who should be master; and sometimes master who should be slave.

Too much liberty leads both men and nations to slavery.