What is so advantageous to the people as liberty? which is sought out and preferred to everything, not only by men, but even by the beasts.

[Quid tam populare quam libertas? Quam non solum ab hominibus verum etiam a bestiis expeti atque omnibus rebus anteponi videtis.]

Marcus Tullius Cicero (106-43 BC) Roman orator, statesman, philosopher

De Lege Agraria [On the Agrarian Law], Oration 2 “Contra Rullum,” sec. 9 (63 BC) [tr. Yonge (1856)]
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(Source (Latin)). Alternate translation:

What is so beneficial to the people as liberty, which we see not only to be greedily sought after by men, but also by beasts, and to be preferred to all things.
[Source (1884)]