Free Quotes: Inspiring Words on Freedom and Liberation (Page 5)

"No human being, however great, or powerful, was ever so free as a fish"

John Ruskin, Writer

"A mother who is really a mother is never free"

Honore de Balzac, Novelist

"Free people, remember this maxim: we may acquire liberty, but it is never recovered if it is once lost"

Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Philosopher

"To free a person from error is to give, and not to take away"

Arthur Schopenhauer, Philosopher

"I'm free of all prejudices. I hate everyone equally"

W. C. Fields, Comedian

"Only free men can negotiate; prisoners cannot enter into contracts. Your freedom and mine cannot be separated"

Nelson Mandela, Statesman

"I am free of all prejudices. I hate every one equally"

W. C. Fields, Comedian

"For to be free is not merely to cast off one's chains, but to live in a way that respects and enhances the freedom of others"

Nelson Mandela, Statesman

"The natural liberty of man is to be free from any superior power on Earth, and not to be under the will or legislative authority of man, but only to have the law of nature for his rule"

Samuel Adams, Revolutionary

"Our contest is not only whether we ourselves shall be free, but whether there shall be left to mankind an asylum on earth for civil and religious liberty"

Samuel Adams, Revolutionary

"Resolve and thou art free"

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Poet

"No one should negotiate their dreams. Dreams must be free to fly high. No government, no legislature, has a right to limit your dreams. You should never agree to surrender your dreams"

Jesse Jackson, Activist

"We feel free when we escape - even if it be but from the frying pan to the fire"

Eric Hoffer, Writer

"A dissenting minority feels free only when it can impose its will on the majority: what it abominates most is the dissent of the majority"

Eric Hoffer, Writer

"When people are free to do as they please, they usually imitate each other"

Eric Hoffer, Writer

"Freedom and order are not incompatible... truth is strength... free discussion is the very life of truth"

Thomas Huxley, Scientist

"A man has free choice to the extent that he is rational"

Thomas Aquinas, Theologian

"Man became free when he recognized that he was subject to law"

Will Durant, Historian

"He who loves, flies, runs, and rejoices; he is free and nothing holds him back"

Henri Matisse, Artist

"This revolution, the information revoultion, is a revolution of free energy as well, but of another kind: free intellectual energy. It's very crude today, yet our Macintosh computer takes less power than a 100-watt bulb to run it and it can save you hours a day. What will it be able to do ten or 20 years from now, or 50 years from now?"

Steve Jobs, Businessman

"Can a nation be free if it oppresses other nations? It cannot"

Vladimir Lenin, Leader

"The great duty of life is not to be free from care, but to learn how to bear it with a brave and cheerful spirit"

William Pennington, Politician

"The horse stares at its captor, barely remembering the free kicks of youth"

Mason Cooley, Writer

"Free men have arms; slaves do not"

William Blackstone, Judge

"If you have embraced a creed which appears to be free from the ordinary dirtiness of politics - a creed from which you yourself cannot expect to draw any material advantage - surely that proves that you are in the right?"

George Orwell, Author

"It may be laid down as a primary position, and the basis of our system, that every Citizen who enjoys the protection of a Free Government, owes not only a proportion of his property, but even of his personal services to the defense of it"

George Washington, President

"To be free is to have achieved your life"

Tennessee Williams, Dramatist

"Democracy is a process by which people are free to choose the man who will get the blame"

Laurence J. Peter, Writer

"Free trade is not based on utility but on justice"

Edmund Burke, Statesman

"Forgiveness is setting the prisoner free, only to find out that the prisoner was me"

Corrie Ten Boom, Celebrity

"Both free speech rights and property rights belong legally to individuals, but their real function is social, to benefit vast numbers of people who do not themselves exercise these rights"

Thomas Sowell, Economist

"I have sworn to only live free. Even if I find bitter the taste of death, I don't want to die humiliated or deceived"

Osama bin Laden, Criminal

"Absolute liberty is absence of restraint; responsibility is restraint; therefore, the ideally free individual is responsible to himself"

Henry B. Adams, Historian

"Home life ceases to be free and beautiful as soon as it is founded on borrowing and debt"

Henrik Ibsen, Poet

"To be free from evil thoughts is God's best gift"

Aeschylus, Playwright

"Destiny waits alike for the free man as well as for him enslaved by another's might"

Aeschylus, Playwright

"For know that no one is free, except Zeus"

Aeschylus, Playwright

"You'll be free or die!"

Harriet Tubman, Activist

"And one who is just of his own free will shall not lack for happiness; and he will never come to utter ruin"

Aeschylus, Playwright

"I wish my name was Brian because maybe sometimes people would misspell my name and call me Brain. That's like a free compliment and you don't even gotta be smart to notice it"

Mitch Hedberg, Comedian

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