Free Quotes

"To the socialist no nation is free whose national existence is based upon the enslavement of another people, for to him colonial peoples, too, are peoples, and, as such, parts of the national state"

Karl Liebknecht, Politician

"The free market economy is supposed to be the only path leading to the happiness of humanity by promoting wealth and prosperity, power and influence of nations"

Omar Bongo, Statesman

"I am in favor of complete freedom of information and of free access to the new communication tools, in particular the Internet"

Omar Bongo, Statesman

"Body language is essential for an actress, even if you don't use your body in an athletic way. Just to be free, to use it like your voice. A body can be small and have incredible violence. A body talks"

Anne Parillaud, Actress

"I've got to play free agency out, and I've got to look at all of my options"

Jason Kidd, Athlete

"There is no such thing as a little freedom. Either you are all free, or you are not free"

Walter Cronkite, Journalist

"This conviction brought me, in the summer of 1978, to the Free Trade Unions - formed by a group of courageous and dedicated people who came out in the defense of the workers' rights and dignity"

Lech Walesa, Activist

"If it be not a sin, an open, flagrant violation of all the rules of justice and humanity, to hold these slaves in bondage, it is indeed folly to put ourselves to any trouble and expense in order to free them"

Samuel Hopkins, Clergyman

"The path towards a free society has not been simple. There are tragic and glorious pages in our history"

Vladimir Putin, President

"We all know that any thing which retards in any way the free circulation of the sap, also prevents to a certain extent the formation of wood and leaves"

Robert Fortune, Scientist

"I am a free lover. I have an inalienable, constitutional and natural right to love whom I may, to love as long or short a period as I can; to change that love every day if I please"

Victoria Woodhull, Activist

"Good thing we've still got politics in Texas - finest form of free entertainment ever invented"

Molly Ivins, Journalist

"Russia under President Putin is less democratic and less free today than when he assumed office. If Russia cannot fulfill its obligation to the G-8 and maintain a high standard of democratic governance then its membership should be suspended"

Vito Fossella, Politician

"Let the poor man count as his enemy, and his worst enemy, every invader of the right of free discussion"

Gerrit Smith, Politician

"I believe that we as the leader of the Free World must provide important leadership on the ethical parameters, the ethical constraints that this research requires"

Ron Kind, Politician

"President Obama insists he's a free-market guy. But you have to wonder whether he understands how a free economy really works"

Fred Barnes, Journalist

"I think that the Internet - and I do love the free flow of ideas on the 'Net - is like the wild west of the information world"

Vince McMahon, Entertainer

"The American flag, Old Glory, standing tall and flying free over American soil for 228 years is the symbol of our beloved country. It is recognized from near and afar, and many lives have been lost defending it"

Jeff Miller, Politician

"The War on Drugs employs millions - politicians, bureaucrats, policemen, and now the military - that probably couldn't find a place for their dubious talents in a free market, unless they were to sell pencils from a tin cup on street corners"

L. Neil Smith, Writer

"The mob's not coming back in the Teamsters Union. We've gotten rid of them, and we're free to be free of government supervision"

James P. Hoffa, Businessman

"Everybody favours free speech in the slack moments when no axes are being ground"

Heywood Broun, Journalist

"We talk about freedoms for African-Americans but unless you have more than one option politically, how free are you?"

Lynn Swann, Athlete

"I'm not really much of a shopper. I have to say that I'd definitely prefer good sex. What makes good sex? Oh my god. I think you need to feel free and you have to really trust the other person. And you have to have that strange, mysterious chemical connection"

Kristin Davis, Actress

"My judges preach against free love openly, practice it secretly"

Victoria Woodhull, Activist

"International socialism recognizes the right of free independent nations, with equal rights"

Karl Liebknecht, Politician

"Information on the Internet must be as free as in the newspapers"

Omar Bongo, Statesman

"You must stand for free speech in the streets"

Mary Harris Jones, Activist

"I used the music kind of as therapy, and it's just amazing that I feel so free after doing that. I feel like I had it trapped inside of me and now I feel free. So it's been a very good therapy session for me as well"

Vanilla Ice, Musician

"Men have looked upon the desert as barren land, the free holding of whoever chose; but in fact each hill and valley in it had a man who was its acknowledged owner and would quickly assert the right of his family or clan to it, against aggression"

T. E. Lawrence, Archaeologist

"There is one class of men, whom it especially behoves to be tenacious of the right of free discussion. I mean the poor"

Gerrit Smith, Politician

"Darwin himself, in his day, was unable to fight free of the theoretical errors of which he was guilty. It was the classics of Marxism that revealed those errors and pointed them out"

Trofim Lysenko, Celebrity

"Many politicians are in the habit of laying it down as a self-evident proposition that no people ought to be free till they are fit to use their freedom. The maxim is worthy of the fool in the old story who resolved not to go into the water till he had learned to swim"

Thomas B. Macaulay, Historian

"I'm looking forward to free skiing the most. Just groomers, big wide groomers making nice big turns"

Picabo Street, Athlete

"As far as feeling freedom in my career now versus five years ago... I think if I feel any more free it's simply because of the experiences that I've had, and the wisdom I've accumulated from that time"

Mary Chapin Carpenter, Musician

"The only result of our present system - unless we reverse the drift - must be the gradual extension of the fascist sector and the gradual disappearance of the system of free enterprise under a free representative government"

John T. Flynn, Critic

"Our aims are absolutely clear: They are a high living standard in the country and a secure, free and comfortable life"

Vladimir Putin, President

"But in the free market system, you're forced to change"

Roy Romer, Politician

"No woman can call herself free who does not own and control her body. No woman can call herself free until she can choose consciously whether she will or will not be a mother"

Margaret Sanger, Activist

"Let it be immediately added, however, that this economic independence and prosperity has always been absolutely associated in the American mind with free political institutions"

Herbert Croly, Author

"I think the touchstone is to give consumers a full, fair choice without the power of a monopoly operating system pushing them in a direction that free competition might or might not achieve"

Jim Barksdale, Businessman

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