So glorious is the recovery of liberty that in regaining liberty we must not shrink even from death.

[Ita praeclara est recuperatio libertatis ut ne mors quidem sit in repetenda libertate fugienda.]

Marcus Tullius Cicero (106-43 BC) Roman orator, statesman, philosopher
Philippics [Philippicae; Antonian Orations], No. 10, ch. 9 / sec. 20 (10.9/10.20) (43-02 BC) [tr. Ker (Loeb) (1926)]
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(Source (Latin)). Other translations:

The recovery of freedom is so splendid a thing that we must not shun even death when seeking to recover it.
[tr. Yonge (1903)]

So glorious is the reclamation of freedom that not even death should be avoided when freedom must be regained.
[tr. @sentantiq (2017)]


 
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