Free Quotes

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

Adrian Cronauer, Entertainer

"In my fifty years of experience and memory, I have seen the most amazing increase in the standard of living of a people ever achieved anywhere in the world. This is why I am so sure that our system of free competition and industrial development is sound and must be preserved"

Charles E. Wilson, Businessman

"Today, free agency takes away a lot of your heroes, they go somewhere else. Some of them don't but a lot of them do-take the higher offer to go somewhere else. And, it turns the fans off because they get attached to the players"

Bob Lilly, Athlete

"Ironically, now that my children are older and gone quite a bit, I find it harder to work when they're not around. Too much free time!"

Alice Hoffman, Author

"Doubt is an uneasy and dissatisfied state from which we struggle to free ourselves and pass into the state of belief; while the latter is a calm and satisfactory state which we do not wish to avoid, or to change to a belief in anything else"

Charles Sanders Peirce, Philosopher

"There are moments when you feel free, moments when you have energy, moments when you have hope, but you can't rely on any of these things to see you through. Circumstances do that"

Anita Brookner, Historian

"I think church and state should remain entirely separate at all costs, and that the decision of religious marriage should be of each faith to debate and decide free of political influence"

Adam Rickitt, Actor

"For more than 150 years free men in our countries have had the opportunities to educate themselves, choose their own religions, select their own occupations, accumulate capital and invent better ways of doing things"

Charles E. Wilson, Businessman

"My salvation was a free gift. I didn't have to work for it and it's better than any gold medal that I've ever won"

Betty Cuthbert, Athlete

"American politics used to be an amateur sport. But somewhere along the way, we handed over to professionals all the things people used to do for free"

Bob Schieffer, Journalist

"I am a technological activist. I have a political agenda. I am in favor of basic human rights: to free speech, to use any information and technology, to purchase and use recreational drugs, to enjoy and purchase so-called 'vices', to be free of intruders, and to privacy"

Bram Cohen, Scientist

"Pleasure that isn't paid for is as insipid as everything else that's free"

Anita Loos, Writer

"For starters, this country embodies something utterly unique: History's first democratic empire. Beginning in the post war era, we have used free trade and democracy to create a series of interlocking relationships that end war"

Armstrong Williams, Journalist

"I try to help developing junior chess. When I lived in USSR, I got a lot of free help from very good coaches - now I am trying to repay that debt"

Boris Spassky, Celebrity

"No tribe unites with another of its own free will"

Arthur Keith, Scientist

"All I try to do is create an atmosphere that seems comfortable enough, that it removes tension and everyone feels free. If they feel free then behaviour happens, small moments happen and that's what ultimately works the best for me"

Barry Levinson, Director

"We had four years of world war which the peoples endured only because they were told that their sufferings would free humanity forever from the scourge of war"

Arthur Henderson, Politician

"The residence of the Plymouth settlers in the Netherlands, and the later conquest of the Dutch colonies, had brought the Americans into contact with the singularly wise and free institutions of the Dutch"

Albert Bushnell Hart, Historian

"To this wonderful page in our country's history another more glorious still will be added, and the slave shall show at last to his free brothers a sharpened sword forged from the links of his fetters"

Giuseppe Garibaldi

"But I don't actually adopt the point of view that our subjective impression of free will, which is a kind of indeterminacy behavior, comes from quantum mechanical indeterminacy"

Murray Gell-Mann, Physicist

"Good habits, which bring our lower passions and appetites under automatic control, leave our natures free to explore the larger experiences of life. Too many of us divide and dissipate our energies in debating actions which should be taken for granted"

Ralph W. Sockman, Leader

"Bondage is of the mind; freedom too is of the mind. If you say 'I am a free soul. I am a son of God who can bind me' free you shall be"

Ramakrishna, Leader

"A man is truly free, even here in this embodied state, if he knows that God is the true agent and he by himself is powerless to do anything"

Ramakrishna, Leader

"If I just do it, it will take less time than telling someone what I'm thinking, and have them free associate, and then come back to me and I'll hate it and I'll have to redo it"

Isaac Mizrahi, Designer

"I look forward to a lot more free time, at least initially, with my wife, Lisa, and our three children"

Steve Yzerman, Athlete

"Marks on paper are free - free speech - press - pictures all go together I suppose"

Georgia O'Keeffe, Artist

"The awakening of the people of China to the possibilities under free government is the most significant, if not the most momentous, event of our generation"

Woodrow Wilson

"America lives in the heart of every man everywhere who wishes to find a region where he will be free to work out his destiny as he chooses"

Woodrow Wilson

"Some people regard discipline as a chore. For me, it is a kind of order that sets me free to fly"

Julie Andrews, Actress

"Despite its enormous power and wealth, China's ruling elite remains absolutely petrified that the free flow of information will undermine its political legitimacy, particularly among China's younger generation"

Tom Lantos, Diplomat

"I think that there is absolutely no free market in modern industrial states"

Jeane Kirkpatrick, Diplomat

"I would rather belong to a poor nation that was free than to a rich nation that had ceased to be in love with liberty"

Woodrow Wilson

"Any free meal is a good meal, you know?"

Joe Sakic, Athlete

"The thing you fear most has no power. Your fear of it is what has the power. Facing the truth really will set you free"

Oprah Winfrey, Entertainer

"Free nations with different histories, economies and a vast amount of stubborn pride will never achieve complete agreement, even when they desire the same objectives"

Arthur Hays Sulzberger, Publisher

"Always do good to others. Be selfless. Mentally remove everything and be free. This is divine life. This is the direct way to Moksha or salvation"

Swami Sivananda, Philosopher

"If you want to sing out, sing out, and if you want to be free, be free, cause there's a million ways to be, you know that there are"

Cat Stevens, Musician

"Like all citizens, Ms. McNeill has the right to be free from unlawful employment practices such as sex discrimination and retaliation"

John Hawkins, Businessman

"Only a free West can help the prisoners of today's left- and right-wing dictatorships"

Barbara Amiel, Journalist

"It is not empty rhetoric to talk of the Free World"

Barbara Amiel, Journalist

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