Free Quotes

"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

"Hey, over here! Have your picture taken with a reclusive author! Today only, we'll throw in a free autograph! But wait, there's more!"

Thomas Pynchon, Writer

"I've left Bethlehem, and I feel free. I've left the girl I was supposed to be, and some day I'll be born"

Paula Cole, Musician

"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

"And it was from Boston that one in every six American families began their journey into the land of the free"

Thomas Menino, Politician

"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

"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

"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

"Man is free at the moment he wishes to be"

Voltaire, Writer

"None are more hopelessly enslaved than those who falsely believe they are free"

Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe, Writer

"He who is not capable of enduring poverty is not capable of being free"

Victor Hugo, Author

"We are not to give credit to the many, who say that none ought to be educated but the free; but rather to the philosophers, who say that the well-educated alone are free"

Epictetus, Philosopher

"Only the educated are free"

Epictetus, Philosopher

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

Gilbert K. Chesterton, Writer

"The family is the test of freedom; because the family is the only thing that the free man makes for himself and by himself"

Gilbert K. Chesterton, Writer

"For a people who are free, and who mean to remain so, a well-organized and armed militia is their best security"

Thomas Jefferson, President

"Every citizen should be a soldier. This was the case with the Greeks and Romans, and must be that of every free state"

Thomas Jefferson, President

"Errors of opinion may be tolerated where reason is left free to combat it"

Thomas Jefferson, President

"A wise and frugal Government, which shall restrain men from injuring one another, which shall leave them otherwise free to regulate their own pursuits of industry and improvement, and shall not take from the mouth of labor the bread it has earned. This is the sum of good government, and this is necessary to close the circlue of our felicities"

Thomas Jefferson, President

"Our task must be to free ourselves by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature and its beauty"

Albert Einstein, Physicist

"In giving freedom to the slave, we assure freedom to the free - honorable alike in what we give and what we preserve. We shall nobly save, or meanly lose, the last best hope of earth"

Abraham Lincoln, President

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