Issue #3: Fighting for Freedom

Day 4,263, 07:59 • Published in United Kingdom Greece • by Ebrietas
This theme seemed appropriate given that just in time for the elections, eUK once more holds part of its shores thanks to a successful resistance war down south. Though I have to say, difficult finding any quotes in the negative on this topic, though that’s not particularly surprising.

Theme: Fighting for Freedom



"It is just as difficult and dangerous to try to free a people that wants to remain servile as it is to enslave a people that wants to remain free."

- Niccolò Machiavelli


"for, as long as but a hundred of us remain alive, never will we on any conditions be brought under English rule. It is in truth not for glory, nor riches, nor honours that we are fighting, but for freedom – for that alone, which no honest man gives up but with life itself"

- Declaration of Arbroath, (the 1320 declaration of Scottish independence sent by Robert the Bruce and the Scottish nobility to the papacy, most notable for its pseudo-nationalist declaration that independence was the will of the Scottish people [read : nobility; this is 1320 we’re talking about])


"Sic semper tyrannis"

- Marcus Junius Brutus, (“thus always to tyrants”; allegedly shouted by Brutus during the assassination of Julius Caesar, though as with many such famous quotes this attribution is questionable)


"Independence in the end is the fruit of injustice"

- Voltaire


"Anywhere, anytime ordinary people are given the chance to choose, the choice is the same: freedom, not tyranny."

- Tony Blair, (try not choke on the hypocrisy)

Recommendations:

“The World at War” is a spectacular documentary series from the 1970s that is, in my opinion, the greatest programming on WW2 (not just the largest war in history, but one often defined by concepts of fighting for freedom and independence) ever made. Even if you don’t care about its significance with regard to the theme of this article, it’s a brilliant series.

Aside from that, there are countless pieces on wars of independence, wars for freedom and liberty, all the way from ancient Greece to present day; Syria, Yemen, Kurdistan and so many others continue at this very moment.