Free Quotes

"No one likes to work for free. To copy an artist's work and download it free is stealing. It's hard work writing and recording music, and it's morally wrong to steal it"

Gary Wright, Musician

"We were constantly moving to different countries and adjusting to new things. It was such a free feeling. I'm glad I didn't have a traditional upbringing"

River Phoenix, Actor

"As precious as life itself is our heritage of individual freedom, for man's free agency is a God-given gift"

David O. McKay, Clergyman

"In a certain sense, aspects of my solo playing were developed in order to test the theory about how long particular elements could be, as parts of so-called free improvisations"

Evan Parker, Musician

"Free men are the strongest men"

Wendell Willkie, Lawyer

"It is the belief that extremes and excesses of inequality must be reduced so that each person is free to fully develop his or her full potential. This is why we take precious time out of our lives and give it to politics"

Paul Wellstone, Politician

"A free economy is as essential to society as democratic political institutions. A strong market-based economy is the fertile ground for democratic freedoms that we think are important"

Lee R. Raymond, Businessman

"Free trade is very important if we respect equality among nations"

Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, Politician

"When radio stations started playing music the record companies started suing radio stations. They thought now that people could listen to music for free, who would want to buy a record in a record shop? But I think we all agree that radio stations are good stuff"

Niklas Zennstrom, Scientist

"A national evil requires a national remedy; let not this any longer be delayed: let your minds expand, free from every narrow principle, and let the public good become the sole object of your united Christian efforts"

Joseph Lancaster, Educator

"I've had trouble being in relationships and writing. This has been a real problem for me. I don't know if it's because I'm not free to fantasize or create these fantasy things about other people"

Lucinda Williams, Musician

"The Hispanic community understands the American Dream and have not forgotten what they were promised - that in the U.S., a free market system, allows us all to succeed economically, achieve stability and security for your family and leave your children better off than yourselves"

Marco Rubio, Politician

"Americans chose a free enterprise system designed to provide a quality of opportunity, not compel a quality of results. And that is why this is only place in the world where you can open up a business in the spare bedroom of your home"

Marco Rubio, Politician

"For a generation, terrorists learned they could make war on free nations without fear of war in return. On September 12, the terrorists got war in return"

Ken Mehlman, Politician

"I mean, they call it Stockholm Syndrome and post traumatic stress disorder. And, you know, I had no free will. I had virtually no free will until I was separated from them for about two weeks"

Patty Hearst, Celebrity

"The progressive movement against the war of occupation in Iraq is a reason for hope, as is resistance to free trade agreements in Latin America. Those are moments that we have to celebrate: that people still find the resolve and energy to resist"

Danny Glover, Actor

"Agents need to be free to pursue investigations in ways that they haven't. There have been restraints that a reformed FBI needs to make sure we don't impose"

John Ashcroft, Public Servant

"I hope for nothing. I fear nothing. I am free"

Nikos Kazantzakis, Writer

"The good news is, Americans know firsthand the benefits of a free market - more choices, lower prices, higher quality - and there is no reason why we cannot help them see these same benefits in health care"

John Shadegg, Politician

"Perhaps the mission of those who love mankind is to make people laugh at the truth, to make truth laugh, because the only truth lies in learning to free ourselves from insane passion for the truth"

Umberto Eco, Novelist

"I expect nothing. I fear no one. I am free"

Nikos Kazantzakis, Writer

"My thought has always been completion. Maybe you have to rebound better, shoot better, hit free throws, handle the ball, defend better. You have to do all those things in the course of a game"

Isaiah Thomas, Athlete

"Writing became an obsessive compulsive habit but I had almost no money so I thought about being an urban firefighter and having lots of free time in which to write or becoming an English teacher and thinking about books and writers on a daily basis. That swayed me"

David Guterson, Author

"I was a scapegoat. The media had to put responsibility on somebody, and I was chosen. They felt free to say that because someone was thin they were anorexic, which is ridiculous"

Kate Moss, Model

"Last month, the Iraqi people went to the polls, voting in their first free election in more than 50 years"

John M. McHugh, Politician

"As free citizens in a political democracy, we have a responsibility to be interested and involved in the affairs of the human community, be it at the local or the global level"

Paul Wellstone, Politician

"If I have a Sunday free, I'll go up the coast and spend some time on the beach. I scuba dive and swim and sail. A lot of the things I like are around the water"

Parker Stevenson, Actor

"To impose taxes when the public exigencies require them is an obligation of the most sacred character, especially with a free people"

James Monroe, President

"The advantage to Great Britain of a regular free trade in corn would, therefore, be more by raising the rest of the world to our standard and price, than by lowering the prices here to the standard of the Continent"

Joseph Hume, Scientist

"I was sent there by the Free Congress Committee, headed by Paul Weyrich. Fred Smith and I were sent down as observers, with reporters' credentials, so we could witness the events"

Dixie Lee Ray, Politician

"A free people, free to believe as we wish, free to speak our minds, free to raise our children as we see fit, will, make no mistake about it, endure"

Nick Rahall, Politician

"Another differentiator is that Skype is free and simple to set up, and it costs us virtually nothing for a new user to join the Skype network, which is why we can offer the service for free"

Niklas Zennstrom, Scientist

"All the big powers they've silenced me. So much for free speech and choice on this fundamental human right"

Jack Kevorkian, Activist

"It's important to me that I should be free to express myself"

George Michael, Musician

"The core political values of our free society are so deeply embedded in our collective consciousness that only a few malcontents, lunatics generally, ever dare to threaten them"

John McCain, Politician

"But please know, whether you believe campaign contributions are speech or property, that I learned to love very dearly the right of free expression when I lived without that freedom for a while a long time ago"

John McCain, Politician

"American consumers benefit from free trade and investment"

John Shadegg, Politician

"I am no bird; and no net ensnares me; I am a free human being with an independent will"

Charlotte Bronte, Novelist

"If a poem is not memorable, there's probably something wrong. One of the problems of free verse is that much of the free verse poetry is not memorable"

Robert Morgan, Soldier

"I'm a performer. I push the envelope, I work in a very uncontrolled manner onstage. I do a lot of free association, it's spontaneous, I go into character"

Michael Richards, Actor

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