"The only excuse for war is that we may live in peace unharmed." ― Marcus Tullius Cicero Topic(s): Freedom Tags: excuse More From Marcus Tullius Cicero "Thrift is of great revenue." "Love is the attempt to form a friendship inspired by beauty." "What sweetness is left in life, if you take away friendship? Robbing life of friendship is like robbing the world of the sun. A true friend is more to be esteemed than kinsfolk." More In Freedom "Men like me, who merely wish to establish political freedom, will in such circumstances lose all their influence, and others will get influence who may become dangerous to all established interests whatsoever."― Lajos Kossuth "As soon as laws are necessary for men, they are no longer fit for freedom."― Pythagoras "Freedom comes only to those who no longer ask of life that it shall yield them any of those personal goods that are subject to the mutations of time."― Bertrand Russell