Niccolo Machiavelli Quotes

A thousand men enslaved fear one beast free.

This is the difference between slavery and freedom. The slave must do what his superior orders him to do, but the free citizen-and this is what freedom means-is in a position to choose his own way of life.

Instead of contributing to the restoration of liberty they enlist of their own free will under the flag of the Spanish tyrants and most actively co-operate to our destruction

Those who shall have tasted actual freedom I believe can never be slaves, or quasi slaves again.

A slave cannot be freed, save he do it himself. Nor can you enslave a free man; the very most you can do is kill him!

Once a man has tasted freedom he will never be content to be a slave.

Do not help your jailers to pretend that their jail is your natural state of existence.

Force works on servile natures, not the free.

Not only was I not born to be a slave; I was not born to hope to become the equal of the slave master.

He wants to enslave you.' 'I shudder at the thought of being free.

Willingly no one chooses the yoke of slavery.

The man who asks of freedom anything other than itself is born to be a slave.

Virtue cannot dwell with slaves, nor reign O'er those who cower to take a tyrant's yoke.

See, it's no in between: you're either free or you're a slave.

It's sort of what the Johnny and Devi stories are about, the idea of always being a slave to something.

If you don't want to be a slave, stop acting like a slave.

He who can be, and therefore is, another's, and he who participates in reason enough to apprehend, but not to have, is a slave by nature.

The use of force to liberate people is very different from the use of force to suppress or control them, or even to defeat them.

Connivance is the relaxation of slavery, not the definition of liberty.

Neither God, nor angels, or just men, command you to suffer for a single moment. Therefore it is your solemn and imperative duty to use every means, both moral, intellectual, and physical, that promise success .... Brethren, arise, arise! Strike for your lives and liberties.... Let your motto be resistance, resistance, resistance!

Rather die freemen than live to be the slaves.

The Slavs like liberty; they cannot bear unlimited rulers, and are not easily brought to submission

Gentlemen, you may soon have the alternative to live as slaves or die as free men

Disobedience is the true foundation of liberty. The obedient must be slaves.

Why independence, if the slaves of today will be the tyrants of tomorrow?