Edith Hamilton - Freedom Quotes

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When the freedom they wished most for was freedom from responsibility, then Athens ceased to be free and was never free again.

Edith Hamilton

Athens had reached the point of rejecting independence, and the freedom she now wanted was freedom from responsibility.

Edith Hamilton

What the people wanted was a government which would provide a comfortable life for them, and with this as the foremost object ideas of freedom and self-reliance and service to the community were obscured to the point of disappearing.

Edith Hamilton

Responsibility was the price every man must pay for freedom. It was to be had on no other terms.

Edith Hamilton

Freedom was born in Greece because there men limited their own freedom.... The limits to action established by law were a mere nothing compared to the limits established by a man's free choice.

Edith Hamilton

Fundamental to everything the [ancient] Greeks achieved was their conviction that good for humanity was possible only if men were free, body, mind, and spirit, and if each man limited his own freedom. A good state or work of art or piece of thinking was possible only through the self-mastery of the free individual, self-government.

Edith Hamilton