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Quotation from Discourses on the First Decade of Titus Livius by Niccolò Machiavelli
“it is in this conflict that all laws favourable to freedom have their origin”
Discourses on the First Decade of Titus Livius, Book I, ch. IV, trans. Ninian Hill Thomson (1883)
His defence of the tumults between the Roman nobles and commons as the source of Roman liberty.
Citation: "it is in this conflict that all laws favourable to freedom have their origin" — Niccolò Machiavelli, Discourses on the First Decade of Titus Livius, Book I, ch. IV, trans. Ninian Hill Thomson (1883). (id machiavelli-discourses-on-livy-q2)
Portrait: Portrait of Niccolò Machiavelli, Santi di Tito, Public domain.
