Free Quotes

"Real freedom is creative, proactive, and will take me into new territories. I am not free if my freedom is predicated on reacting to my past"

Kenny Loggins, Musician

"Opposing the free flow of goods or people is a bad idea"

William Weld, Politician

"We live in a democracy. We have this extraordinary opportunity to use our mind and say what we think, speak as we think. Sometimes what we say is objectionable to other people. But that is part of a free society"

Hal Holbrook, Actor

"People go back to the stuff that doesn't cost a lot of money and the stuff that you don't have to hand money to over and over again. Stuff that you get for free, stuff that your older brother gives you, stuff that you can get out of the local library"

Frank Black, Musician

"As I've said before, free money scams are a problem"

Matthew Lesko, Entertainer

"Some of the best health care services are free or cost very little and are even available to millionaires but hardly anyone knows they exist"

Matthew Lesko, Entertainer

"I am learning to forgive my inner geek, and even value him as a free man"

Kenny Loggins, Musician

"Running away will never make you free"

Kenny Loggins, Musician

"Children also have artistic ability, and there is wisdom in there having it! The more helpless they are, the more instructive are the examples they furnish us; and they must be preserved free of corruption from an early age"

Paul Klee, Artist

"We need to thank all of our troops, and particularly those for whom we can never express enough gratitude for they have given their lives so that all of us may be free and that our democracy can be a shining light for the rest of the world"

Virgil Goode, Politician

"When I see that my geek may have contained some of the best parts of me, when I love and appreciate him, I set my children free to see themselves as lovable however they are"

Kenny Loggins, Musician

"Others indeed may talk, and write, and fight about liberty, and make an outward pretence to it; but the free-thinker alone is truly free"

George Berkeley, Philosopher

"It's not good for government to tell people that the world owes them a living and that things are free"

William Weld, Politician

"Language is a process of free creation; its laws and principles are fixed, but the manner in which the principles of generation are used is free and infinitely varied. Even the interpretation and use of words involves a process of free creation"

Noam Chomsky, Activist

"To advocate a New Order was to seek freedom and respect for peoples without prejudice, and to seek a stable basis for the existence all peoples, equally, and free of threats"

Hideki Tojo, Soldier

"At this very moment I'm behind on a compilation that Slave Labor is doing for Free Comic Book Day"

Jhonen Vasquez, Cartoonist

"My dreams were all my own; I accounted for them to nobody; they were my refuge when annoyed - my dearest pleasure when free"

Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, Author

"The average European does not seem to feel free until he succeeds in enslaving and oppressing others"

Bernard Berenson, Historian

"I think in the wake of Katrina, the Coast Guard may well have been the only entity or agency that came out of that exercise free of fault and free of blame"

Howard Coble, Politician

"I had looked forward so eagerly to leaving the horrible place, yet when my release came and I knew that God's sunlight was to be free for me again, there was a certain pain in leaving"

Nellie Bly, Journalist

"Free speech is not to be regulated like diseased cattle and impure butter. The audience that hissed yesterday may applaud today, even for the same performance"

William O. Douglas, Judge

"My kids are free to do what ever they want. Because I only advise. I don't make them do anything"

Jack Bowman, Actor

"The attacks in Jordan, just like those before it in Indonesia, Egypt, Spain and the United States, demonstrate that terrorism does not discriminate by race, ethnicity or region. Instead, terrorists indiscriminately target those seeking to live a peaceful, loving and free life"

Allyson Schwartz, Politician

"Raymond Floyd. The man knows how to control situations. He was experienced. He didn't let me get overly excited; he kept me in check. It allowed me to free myself up, and I played really well with him"

Payne Stewart, Athlete

"Seeking means: to have a goal; but finding means: to be free, to be receptive, to have no goal"

Herman Hesse, Author

"The truth will set you free, but first it will make you miserable"

James A. Garfield, President

"The '60s are gone, dope will never be as cheap, sex never as free, and the rock and roll never as great"

Abbie Hoffman, Activist

"And you can't have a prosperous economy when the government is way overspending, raising tax rates, printing too much money, over regulating and restricting free trade. It just can't be done"

Arthur Laffer, Economist

"What I'm not saying is that all government spending is bad. It's not - far, far from it, but there is no free lunch, as a former colleague of mine used to say. There is no public tooth fairy. Father Christmas does not work on the Treasury staff this year. You can never bail someone out of trouble without putting someone else into trouble"

Arthur Laffer, Economist

"We all need somebody to talk to. It would be good if we talked... not just pitter-patter, but real talk. We shouldn't be so afraid, because most people really like this contact; that you show you are vulnerable makes them free to be vulnerable"

Liv Ullmann, Actress

"Life is like a game of cards. The hand you are dealt is determinism; the way you play it is free will"

Jawaharlal Nehru, Leader

"The essence of a free government consists in an effectual control of rivalries"

John Adams, President

"The will is not free - it is a phenomenon bound by cause and effect - but there is something behind the will which is free"

Swami Vivekananda, Clergyman

"The moment I have realized God sitting in the temple of every human body, the moment I stand in reverence before every human being and see God in him - that moment I am free from bondage, everything that binds vanishes, and I am free"

Swami Vivekananda, Clergyman

"Traffic was very, very free. It was great"

Jim Capaldi, Musician

"Is any man free except the one who can pass his life as he pleases?"

Aulus Persius Flaccus, Poet

"If repression has indeed been the fundamental link between power, knowledge, and sexuality since the classical age, it stands to reason that we will not be able to free ourselves from it except at a considerable cost"

Michel Foucault, Historian

"All men have an equal right to the free development of their faculties; they have an equal right to the impartial protection of the state; but it is not true, it is against all the laws of reason and equity, it is against the eternal nature of things"

Victor Cousin, Philosopher

"I am free because I know that I alone am morally responsible for everything I do. I am free, no matter what rules surround me. If I find them tolerable, I tolerate them; if I find them too obnoxious, I break them. I am free because I know that I alone am morally responsible for everything I do"

Robert A. Heinlein, Writer

"A free press is indispensable to the workings of our democratic society"

Harlan Stone, Lawyer

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