Tuesday, August 25, 2020
Give Me Liberty, or Give Me Death
Tacitus, Annals 2.15 (tr. John Jackson):
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Was there another course left for them but to hold their freedom or to die before enslavement?Winston S. Churchill, The Gathering Storm = The Second World War, Vol. I (1948; rpt. Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, 1985), p. 312:
aliud sibi reliquum quam tenere libertatem aut mori ante servitium?
Still, if you will not fight for the right when you can easily win without bloodshed; if you will not fight when your victory will be sure and not too costly; you may come to the moment when you will have to fight with all the odds against you and only a precarious chance of survival. There may even be a worse case. You may have to fight when there is no hope of victory, because it is better to perish than live as slaves.
