Free Quotes

"Make men wise, and by that very operation you make them free. Civil liberty follows as a consequence of this; no usurped power can stand against the artillery of opinion"

William Godwin, Writer

"We know that social exclusion is closely tied to the new economic world order, globalized, with free and open markets, which isn't bringing prosperity or social justice to all"

Claudio Hummes

"The first census in 1790 asked just six questions: the name of the head of the household, the number of free white males older than 16, the number of free white males younger than 16, the number of free white females, the number of other free persons, and the number of slaves"

Tom G. Palmer, Educator

"I wanted to give money to people like this woman so that they would be free from the moneylenders to sell their product at the price which the markets gave them - which was much higher than what the trader was giving them"

Muhammad Yunus, Economist

"NAFTA and GATT have about as much to do with free trade as the Patriot Act has to do with liberty"

Michael Badnarik, Politician

"Manufacturing and commercial monopolies owe their origin not to a tendency imminent in a capitalist economy but to governmental interventionist policy directed against free trade and laissez faire"

Ludwig von Mises, Economist

"Now for my own case, I bless the Lord that, for all that hath been said of me, my conscience doth not condemn me. I do not say I am free of sin, but I am at peace with God through a slain Mediator; and I believe that there is no salvation but only in Christ"

Donald Cargill, Clergyman

"I contend that the strongest of all governments is that which is most free"

William Henry Harrison, President

"Be convinced that to be happy means to be free and that to be free means to be brave. Therefore do not take lightly the perils of war"

Thucydides, Historian

"Free speech is the whole thing, the whole ball game. Free speech is life itself"

Salman Rushdie, Novelist

"This is a free country, and nobody should be criticized for their political beliefs. We're all allowed to have our opinions"

Shannen Doherty, Actress

"More than anything else, let me be clear - we need to be willing to fight for freedom, and free markets, and traditional moral values. That's what the American people want to see this movement and this party return to"

Mike Pence, Politician

"Nor was it only from the millions of slaves that chains had been removed; the whole nation had been in bondage; free speech had been suppressed"

Matthew Simpson, Clergyman

"For pragmatic reasons, I love the routine. I love the structure of it. I love knowing that my days are free. I know where I'm going at night. I know my life is kind of orderly. I just like that better"

Andrea Martin, Actor

"Russia is the only place where men and women can be free"

James Larkin, Activist

"You're not free until you've been made captive by supreme belief"

Marianne Moore, Poet

"Ladies and gentlemen, god bless America - land of the free, home of the brave"

Dave Grohl, Musician

"There are good people and bad people in all organizations fundamentally however, when you look at the basis of the Tea Party it has nothing to do with race. It has to do with an economic recovery. It has to do with limiting the role of our government in our lives. It has to do with free markets"

Tim Scott, Politician

"And the Tea Party represents many of us who believe that we are taxed enough already. We believe in free markets"

Tim Scott, Politician

"Our ministry is debt free and we have not had to beg or plead for finances"

David Wilkerson, Clergyman

"I have worked to expand the health care debate beyond the current for-profit system, to include a public option and an amendment to free the states to pursue single payer"

Dennis Kucinich, Politician

"Every renaissance comes to the world with a cry, the cry of the human spirit to be free"

Anne Sullivan, Educator

"The states are not free, under the guise of protecting maternal health or potential life, to intimidate women into continuing pregnancies"

Harry A. Blackmun, Judge

"That a majority of the Abolitionists in this place would patronize a free labor store, in preference to others, I do not doubt; but we do not muster money in Cincinnati"

Gamaliel Bailey, Journalist

"We were soon free of the woods and bushes, and fairly upon the broad prairie"

Francis Parkman, Historian

"You mentioned the Free Trade Agreement and yes I can't tell you how pleased we are that Morocco is one of the countries that our country is going to begin negotiating a Free Trade Agreement with"

Donald Evans, Public Servant

"But, we have had the debate in our country now for a number of years as to whether or not free trade agreements are good for economic growth and economic opportunity in creating jobs and lifting people out of poverty"

Donald Evans, Public Servant

"We should have a State in which we could live and breathe as free men and which we could develop according to our own lights and culture and where principles of Islamic social justice could find free play"

Muhammad Ali Jinnah, Politician

"One of the unsung freedoms that go with a free press is the freedom not to read it"

Ferdinand Mount, Writer

"My dear brother Barack Obama has a certain fear of free black men. As a young brother who grows up in a white context, brilliant African father, he's always had to fear being a white man with black skin. All he has known culturally is white. He has a certain rootlessness, a deracination"

Cornel West, Educator

"I like free gowns"

Courtney Love, Musician

"I'm free. I just do what I want, say what I want, say how I feel, and I don't try to hurt nobody. I just try to make sure that I don't compromise my art in any kind of way, and I think people respect that"

Erykah Badu, Musician

"John Huston was a superb master. He knew how to make good films. I did three things with him. One is called Independence. It plays in Philadelphia, for free. It's been playing there for 25 years"

Eli Wallach, Actor

"I have been free for more than a month. Some people may think that that is long enough. Others may think that that is not quite long enough"

Daw Aung San Suu Kyi, Activist

"Was there ever in anyone's life span a point free in time, devoid of memory, a night when choice was any more than the sum of all the choices gone before?"

Joan Didion, Author

"We shall continue to work for a Middle East that is free of strife and violence, living in harmony without the threat of terrorism or the dangers of weapons of mass destruction"

Hosni Mubarak, Statesman

"The number one reason I write is to come to schools and see my readers. I would do it for free"

Frank Murphy, Politician

"The psychology of a language which, in one way or another, is imposed upon one because of factors beyond one's control, is very different from the psychology of a language which one accepts of one's free will"

Edward Sapir, Scientist

"In Iran the whole reform and democracy movement has been based on the emerging free press"

Christiane Amanpour, Journalist

"Worrying that banning flag desecration would inhibit free speech reveals a misunderstanding of the flag's fundamental nature"

Adrian Cronauer, Entertainer

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