Free Quotes

"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

"If the word has the potency to revive and make us free, it has also the power to blind, imprison, and destroy"

Ralph Ellison, Author

"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

"The first people totalitarians destroy or silence are men of ideas and free minds"

Isaiah Berlin, Philosopher

"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

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

Neal Stephenson, Writer

"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

"And for man to look upon himself as a capital good, even if it did not impair his freedom, may seem to debase him... by investing in themselves, people can enlarge the range of choice available to them. It is one way free men can enhance their welfare"

Theodore William Schultz, Economist

"Slave girls on Gor address all free men as Master, though, of course only one such would be her true Master"

John Norman, Writer

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Thomas Pynchon, Writer

"I was born on the prairies where the wind blew free and there was nothing to break the light of the sun. I was born where there were no enclosures"

Geronimo, Statesman

"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

"Whether we are poor among the poorest, or less poor among the wealthier, let us stand proud and noteworthy, united and strong, comforted by our belonging to the Community of the Free Nations of our Planet"

Mathieu Kerekou, Politician

"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

"Until we are all free, we are none of us free"

Emma Lazarus, Poet

"The more consciously democratic Americans became, however, the less they were satisfied with a conception of the Promised Land, which went no farther than a pervasive economic prosperity guaranteed by free institutions"

Herbert Croly, Author

"Free Tibet before free trade"

Zhu Rongji, Statesman

"Half-jokingly, I asked what was wrong with me. So we made a deal: I would run his biological research provided I had a free hand to run my new project"

James W. Black, Scientist

"I have busted more hippies' noses than all the narcs in the free world"

Ted Nugent, Musician

"America's fighting men and women sacrifice much to ensure that our great nation stays free. We owe a debt of gratitude to the soldiers that have paid the ultimate price for this cause, as well as for those who are blessed enough to return from the battlefield unscathed"

Allen Boyd, Politician

"A man is either free or he is not. There cannot be any apprenticeship for freedom"

Amiri Baraka, Poet

"We... are not really free if we can't control our own government and its policies. And we will never do that if we remain ignorant"

Charley Reese, Writer

"When the freedom they wished for most was freedom from responsibility, then Athens ceased to be free and was never free again"

Edith Hamilton, Writer

"Do not free the camel of the burden of his hump; you may be freeing him from being a camel"

Kathleen Casey, Politician

"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 organized workers of America, free in their industrial life, conscious partners in production, secure in their homes and enjoying a decent standard of living, will prove the finest bulwark against the intrusion of alien doctrines of government"

John L. Lewis, Leader

"The free way of life proposes ends, but it does not prescribe means"

Robert Kennedy, Politician

"Look, freedom is an overwhelming American notion. The idea that we want to see the world, the peoples of the world free is something that all of us subscribe to"

Joe Biden, Vice President

"The world today is divided into the free and the enslaved"

Barbara Amiel, Journalist

"The proposition of an established classification of states as slave states and free states, as insisted on by some, and into northern and southern, as maintained by others, seems to me purely imaginary, and of course the supposed equilibrium of those classes a mere conceit"

William H. Seward, Politician

"If my body is enslaved, still my mind is free"

Sophocles, Author

"There are some who praise a man free from disease; to me no man who is poor seems free from disease but to be constantly sick"

Sophocles, Author

"None but ourselves can free our minds"

Bob Marley, Musician

"Emancipate yourselves from mental slavery, none but ourselves can free our minds!"

Bob Marley, Musician

"You only have power over people so long as you don't take everything away from them. But when you've robbed a man of everything, he's no longer in your power - he's free again"

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, Author

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