Free Quotes: Inspiring Words on Freedom and Liberation

"Some books leave us free and some books make us free"

Ralph Waldo Emerson, Philosopher

"Only in our dreams are we free. The rest of the time we need wages"

Terry Pratchett, Author

"Only our individual faith in freedom can keep us free"

Dwight D. Eisenhower, President

"The 4th Amendment and the personal rights it secures have a long history. At the very core stands the right of a man to retreat into his own home and there be free from unreasonable governmental intrusion"

Potter Stewart, Judge

"There's not an American in this country free until every one of us is free"

Jackie Robinson, Athlete

"Households, cities, countries, and nations have enjoyed great happiness when a single individual has taken heed of the Good and Beautiful. Such people not only liberate themselves; they fill those they meet with a free mind"

Philo, Philosopher

"The ballot box is the surest arbiter of disputes among free men"

James Buchanan, President

"If you're not brave, you're not going to be free"

Newt Gingrich, Politician

"Too much free time is certainly a monkey's paw in disguise. Most people can't handle a structureless life"

Doug Coupland, Author

"A hungry man is not a free man"

Adlai E. Stevenson, Politician

"If you love someone, set them free. If they come back they're yours; if they don't they never were"

Richard Bach, Novelist

"It is a paradox that every dictator has climbed to power on the ladder of free speech. Immediately on attaining power each dictator has suppressed all free speech except his own"

Herbert Hoover, President

"No one is free who does not lord over himself"

Claudius, Leader

"I say: The time has come for my courageous and proud people, after decades of displacement and colonial occupation and ceaseless suffering, to live like other peoples of the earth, free in a sovereign and independent homeland"

Mahmoud Abbas, Statesman

"When truth is no longer free, freedom is no longer real: the truths of the police are the truths of today"

Jacques Prevert, Poet

"We want to reduce the size of government in half as a percentage of GNP over the next 25 years. We want to reduce the number of people depending on government so there is more autonomy and more free citizens"

Grover Norquist, Politician

"Giving every man a vote has no more made men wise and free than Christianity has made them good"

H. L. Mencken, Writer

"If I'm free, it's because I'm always running"

Jimi Hendrix, Musician

"A free America... means just this: individual freedom for all, rich or poor, or else this system of government we call democracy is only an expedient to enslave man to the machine and make him like it"

Frank Lloyd Wright, Architect

"If a nation expects to be ignorant and free, in a state of civilization, it expects what never was and never will be"

Thomas Jefferson, President

"Every person has free choice. Free to obey or disobey the Natural Laws. Your choice determines the consequences. Nobody ever did, or ever will, escape the consequences of his choices"

Alfred A. Montapert, Philosopher

"If a free society cannot help the many who are poor, it cannot save the few who are rich"

John F. Kennedy, President

"To admit there is no god is to provide free license to pillage and rape with clear conscience"

Eli Khamarov, Writer

"Democracy shows not only its power in reforming governments, but in regenerating a race of men and this is the greatest blessing of free governments"

Andrew Jackson, President

"The person who has nothing for which he is willing to fight, nothing which is more important than his own personal safety, is a miserable creature and has no chance of being free unless made and kept so by the exertions of better men than himself"

John Stuart Mill, Philosopher

"A free society is one where it is safe to be unpopular"

Adlai E. Stevenson, Politician

"This nation will remain the land of the free only so long as it is the home of the brave"

Elmer Davis, Journalist

"If it were possible to have a life absolutely free from every feeling of sin, what a terrifying vacuum it would be"

Cesare Pavese, Poet

"The American people need to know the truth. The American people need to see the truth. In a democracy, letting the people know the truth is the essence of what it means to be free"

Barbara Boxer, Politician

"The censor's sword pierces deeply into the heart of free expression"

Earl Warren, Judge

"Universal suffrage should rest upon universal education. To this end, liberal and permanent provision should be made for the support of free schools by the State governments, and, if need be, supplemented by legitimate aid from national authority"

Rutherford B. Hayes, President

"Civilization is the progress toward a society of privacy. The savage's whole existence is public, ruled by the laws of his tribe. Civilization is the process of setting man free from men"

Ayn Rand, Writer

"There is a tension in relationships between wanting to return to the womb, but also wanting to be free. Because sometimes the woman's attentions can be overly maternal, and you want to go, 'Ahhhh!'"

Ralph Fiennes, Actor

"The unproductive tillage of human cattle takes that which of right belongs to free labor, and which is necessary for the support and happiness of our own race"

David Wilmot, Activist

"Ignorant free speech often works against the speaker. That is one of several reasons why it must be given rein instead of suppressed"

Anna Quindlen, Journalist

"The most certain test by which we judge whether a country is really free is the amount of security enjoyed by minorities"

John Acton, Historian

"If the word has the potency to revive and make us free, it has also the power to blind, imprison, and destroy"

Ralph Ellison, Author

"The perfection of our union, especially our commitment to equality of opportunity, has been a story of constant striving to live up to our Founding principles. This is what Abraham Lincoln meant when he said, 'In giving freedom to the slave, we assure freedom to the free - honorable alike in what we give, and what we preserve.'"

Paul Ryan, Politician

"In football, there were drinks available everywhere you looked. On a golf tournament, you could find one free anywhere you wanted it. In tennis and NBA basketball, everybody had a hospitality suite, and so you could go there and load up if you wanted to"

Pat Summerall, Celebrity

"President Reagan was a leader at a time when the American people most needed leadership. He outlined a vision that captured the imagination of the free world, a vision that toppled the Communist empire and freed countless millions"

Dennis Hastert, Politician

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