Free Quotes

"Let us all learn to be free, and to be loyal"

"It didn't take long to recognise the shortcomings of the Soviet regime and to see the values of the free world"

"Free love? as if love is anything but free. Man has bought brains, but all the millions in the world have failed to buy love"

Emma Goldman, Activist

"The free nations of the world will not be pushed around by terrorist cowards whose goal is to spread fear and destruction and destroy our liberty and way of life"

Eliot Engel, Politician

"Free nations of the world cannot allow Taiwan, a beacon of democracy, to be subdued by an authoritarian China"

Nick Lampson, Politician

"Critics don't buy records. They get 'em free"

Nat King Cole, Musician

"Everyone is of course free to interpret the work in his own way. I think seeing a picture is one thing and interpreting it is another"

Jasper Johns, Artist

"When I had made more money than I needed for myself and my family, I set up a foundation to promote the values and principles of a free and open society"

George Soros, Businessman

"Our ideal of the future is that she should continue to render that service of her own free will"

Henry Cabot Lodge, Politician

"The Framers of the Constitution knew that free speech is the friend of change and revolution. But they also knew that it is always the deadliest enemy of tyranny"

Hugo Black, Judge

"Our information lives will be better served when we are free to get to our information from wherever we are, with any device available"

Donald Norman, Scientist

"We are in favor of greater free markets"

Ed Gillespie, Politician

"On this Veterans Day, let us remember the service of our veterans, and let us renew our national promise to fulfill our sacred obligations to our veterans and their families who have sacrificed so much so that we can live free"

Dan Lipinski, Politician

"From dear, dear Gloria Swanson, I learned how to live long, happy and free of health problems. I owe her my life"

Dirk Benedict, Actor

"The threat to free television. The reason television is free is because it is a life support system for commercials. That fundamental aspect is about to change"

Dick Wolf, Producer

"The Founding Fathers gave the free press the protection it must have to bare the secrets of government and inform the people"

Hugo Black, Judge

"Paramount among the responsibilities of a free press is the duty to prevent any part of the government from deceiving the people and sending them off to distant lands to die of foreign fevers and foreign shot and shell"

Hugo Black, Judge

"Criticism of government finds sanctuary in several portions of the 1st Amendment. It is part of the right of free speech. It embraces freedom of the press"

Hugo Black, Judge

"Live theater to me is much more free than the movies or television"

Eartha Kitt, Actress

"I read the Life magazine articles about free love and free dope in California. At age 20 I drove to Los Angeles"

Glenn Frey, Musician

"The Iraqi Free Press, which did not exist 18 months ago because there was no such thing as the Iraqi Free Press, broke a story about the U.N. Oil-for-Food scandal, which could potentially turn out to be the largest scandal in history"

Chris Chocola, Politician

"We'll free every slave in every town and region. Can anybody get a bigger army than that?"

Dalton Trumbo, Novelist

"The people currently in charge have forgotten the first principle of an open society, namely that we may be wrong and that there has to be free discussion. That it's possible to be opposed to the policies without being unpatriotic"

George Soros, Businessman

"We have some real political differences among us, but we all share the same goals: clean air and water, injury free workplaces, safe transportation systems, to name a few of the good things that can come from regulation"

Fred Thompson, Politician

"The best compliment to a child or a friend is the feeling you give him that he has been set free to make his own inquiries, to come to conclusions that are right for him, whether or not they coincide with your own"

Alistair Cooke, Journalist

"We must remain steadfast in our commitment to our troops, and to those fighting for a free and democratic Iraq because freedom makes our country and the world a safer place"

Chris Chocola, Politician

"Given the right to a free ballot, the people would support my return"

Benazir Bhutto, Leader

"In almost everything that touches our everyday life on earth, God is pleased when we're pleased. He wills that we be as free as birds to soar and sing our maker's praise without anxiety"

Aiden Wilson Tozer, Clergyman

"I noticed this process of waking, and predicted with terrifying logic that one of these years not far away I would be awake continuously and never slip back, and never be free of myself again"

Annie Dillard, Author

"I think the most liberating thing I did early on was to free myself from any concern with my looks as they pertained to my work"

Meryl Streep, Actress

"There is nothing wrong with going to bed with someone of your own sex. People should be very free with sex, they should draw the line at goats"

Elton John, Musician

"The words spoken by the leader of the free world can expand the frontiers of freedom or shrink them. When Ronald Reagan called on Gorbachev to "tear down this wall," a surge of confidence rose that would ultimately breach the bounds of the evil empire"

Mitt Romney, Politician

"The most important element of a free society, where individual rights are held in the highest esteem, is the rejection of the initiation of violence"

Ron Paul, Politician

"Justifying conscription to promote the cause of liberty is one of the most bizarre notions ever conceived by man! Forced servitude, with the risk of death and serious injury as a price to live free, makes no sense"

Ron Paul, Politician

"I could, as a free man, look across the bay toward the Eastern Shore where I was born a slave"

Frederick Douglass, Author

"As long as you're enthralled by a lifeless form, you're not free"

Bodhidharma, Leader

"And the Buddha is the person who's free: free of plans, free of cares"

Bodhidharma, Leader

"I think people should be free to engage in any sexual practices they choose; they should draw the line at goats though"

Elton John, Musician

"Government is taking 40 percent of the GDP. And that's at the state, local and federal level. President Obama has taken government spending at the federal level from 20 percent to 25 percent. Look, at some point, you cease being a free economy, and you become a government economy. And we've got to stop that"

Mitt Romney, Politician

"I am absolutely opposed to a national ID card. This is a total contradiction of what a free society is all about. The purpose of government is to protect the secrecy and the privacy of all individuals, not the secrecy of government. We don't need a national ID card"

Ron Paul, Politician

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