Free Quotes

"The time is near at hand which must determine whether Americans are to be free men or slaves"

"Democracy shows not only its power in reforming governments, but in regenerating a race of men and this is the greatest blessing of free governments"

Andrew Jackson, President

"The censor's sword pierces deeply into the heart of free expression"

Earl Warren, Judge

"The American people need to know the truth. The American people need to see the truth. In a democracy, letting the people know the truth is the essence of what it means to be free"

Barbara Boxer, Politician

"The person who has nothing for which he is willing to fight, nothing which is more important than his own personal safety, is a miserable creature and has no chance of being free unless made and kept so by the exertions of better men than himself"

John Stuart Mill, Philosopher

"That said, the question remains: how to strike the balance between free speech and mutual respect in this mixed-up world, both blessed and cursed with instant communication? We should not fight fire with fire, threats with threats"

Timothy Garton Ash, Author

"I saw the angel in the marble and carved until I set him free"

Michelangelo, Artist

"Free nations are peaceful nations. Free nations don't attack each other. Free nations don't develop weapons of mass destruction"

George W. Bush, President

"If it were possible to have a life absolutely free from every feeling of sin, what a terrifying vacuum it would be"

Cesare Pavese, Poet

"Civilization is the progress toward a society of privacy. The savage's whole existence is public, ruled by the laws of his tribe. Civilization is the process of setting man free from men"

Ayn Rand, Writer

"Man will never be free until the last king is strangled with the entrails of the last priest"

Denis Diderot, Editor

"We must free ourselves of the hope that the sea will ever rest. We must learn to sail in high winds"

Aristotle Onassis, Businessman

"Universal suffrage should rest upon universal education. To this end, liberal and permanent provision should be made for the support of free schools by the State governments, and, if need be, supplemented by legitimate aid from national authority"

Rutherford B. Hayes, President

"There is a tension in relationships between wanting to return to the womb, but also wanting to be free. Because sometimes the woman's attentions can be overly maternal, and you want to go, 'Ahhhh!'"

Ralph Fiennes, Actor

"There are two freedoms - the false, where a man is free to do what he likes; the true, where he is free to do what he ought"

Charles Kingsley, Clergyman

"In any case, the fewer boundaries that exist hindering free movement between all forms of articulate human cognition, the better"

Brian Ferneyhough, Composer

"I'd like to talk about free markets. Information in the computer age is the last genuine free market left on earth except those free markets where indigenous people are still surviving. And that's basically becoming limited"

Russell Means, Activist

"The unproductive tillage of human cattle takes that which of right belongs to free labor, and which is necessary for the support and happiness of our own race"

David Wilmot, Activist

"I want to give as many Canadians the opportunity to be successful and if we can use their athletic gifts to get them a free degree or a free diploma across the border then I guess I'm doing my job"

Donovan Bailey, Athlete

"When decorum is repression, the only dignity free men have is to speak out"

Abbie Hoffman, Activist

"He puts his right hand lightly on the cup, I put my left, leaving the right free to transcribe, and away we go. We get, oh, 500 to 600 words an hour. Better than gasoline"

James Merrill, Poet

"Free imagination is the inestimable prerogative of youth and it must be cherished and guarded as a treasure"

Felix Bloch, Scientist

"The 5th Amendment is an old friend and a good friend. one of the great landmarks in men's struggle to be free of tyranny, to be decent and civilized"

William O. Douglas, Judge

"Ignorant free speech often works against the speaker. That is one of several reasons why it must be given rein instead of suppressed"

Anna Quindlen, Journalist

"The most certain test by which we judge whether a country is really free is the amount of security enjoyed by minorities"

John Acton, Historian

"I think my perception of my own life is different and the fact that Lauren and myself are together. I've never felt this free or happy and so that permeates onto my onstage persona and to my working environment"

Rick Allen, Musician

"Whoever will be free must make himself free. Freedom is no fairy gift to fall into a man's lap. What is freedom? To have the will to be responsible for one's self"

Max Stirner, Philosopher

"The lessons of September 11 are that if we allow law enforcement to do their work free of political interference, if we give them adequate resources and modern technologies, we can protect our citizens without intruding on our liberties"

Lucille Roybal-Allard

"The perfection of our union, especially our commitment to equality of opportunity, has been a story of constant striving to live up to our Founding principles. This is what Abraham Lincoln meant when he said, 'In giving freedom to the slave, we assure freedom to the free - honorable alike in what we give, and what we preserve.'"

Paul Ryan, Politician

"In football, there were drinks available everywhere you looked. On a golf tournament, you could find one free anywhere you wanted it. In tennis and NBA basketball, everybody had a hospitality suite, and so you could go there and load up if you wanted to"

Pat Summerall, Celebrity

"President Reagan was a leader at a time when the American people most needed leadership. He outlined a vision that captured the imagination of the free world, a vision that toppled the Communist empire and freed countless millions"

Dennis Hastert, Politician

"For people on social assistance, the loss of free dental care, prescription drugs and subsidized housing can greatly outweigh additional income from working. We've all heard the stories"

Kim Campbell, Statesman

"A person needs a little madness, or else they never dare cut the rope and be free"

Nikos Kazantzakis, Writer

"From too much love of living, From hope and fear set free, We thank with brief thanksgiving Whatever gods may be That no life lives for ever; That dead men rise up never; That even the weariest river Winds somewhere safe to sea"

Algernon Charles Swinburne, Poet

"The more we reduce ourselves to machines in the lower things, the more force we shall set free to use in the higher"

Anna C. Brackett

"This is not a battle between the United States of America and terrorism, but between the free and democratic world and terrorism"

Tony Blair, Statesman

"Our enemies are Medes and Persians, men who for centuries have lived soft and luxurious lives; we of Macedon for generations past have been trained in the hard school of danger and war. Above all, we are free men, and they are slaves"

Arrian, Historian

"Either we are all free, or we fail; democracy must belong to all of us"

Dennis Chavez, Politician

"Free enterprise is not a bad idea and has produced art"

Ishmael Reed, Poet

"It is the fate of operating systems to become free"

Neal Stephenson, Writer

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