Free Quotes

"There's too much tendency to attribute to God the evils that man does of his own free will"

"The tyrant has fallen, and Iraq is free"

"So, I'm lying on the couch and Laura walks in and I say, 'Free at last,' and she says 'You're free all right, you're free to do the dishes.' So I say, 'You're talking to the former president, baby,' and she said, 'consider this your new domestic policy agenda.'"

George W. Bush, President

"I had to abandon free market principles in order to save the free market system"

George W. Bush, President

"I believe in the transformational power of liberty. I believe that the free Iraq is in this nation's interests. I believe a free Afghanistan is in this nation's interest"

George W. Bush, President

"In days of doubt, in days of dreary musings on my country's fate, you alone are my comfort and support, oh great, powerful, righteous, and free Russian language!"

Ivan Turgenev, Novelist

"Let men decide firmly what they will not do, and they will be free to do vigorously what they ought to do"

Mencius, Philosopher

"If food were free, why work?"

Douglas Horton, Clergyman

"If allowed to run free of the social system, capitalism will attempt to corrupt and undermine democracy, which is after all not a natural state"

John Ralston Saul, Author

"Good ideas are a dime a dozen, bad ones are free"

Douglas Horton, Clergyman

"It's true that the war in Iraq opened a distance in relations between part of Europe and the U.S. government, but our basic ties are stronger than that. We share democracy, free markets and a commitment to Western security. We differ on how to guarantee that security"

Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero, Politician

"If you love something let it go free. If it doesn't come back, you never had it. If it comes back, love it forever"

Douglas Horton, Clergyman

"Through the inspiration of Vaclav's words, the courage of his dissidence and the integrity of his leadership, Czechoslovakia successfully transitioned from an authoritarian state to a free democracy at the heart of Europe"

Michael D. Higgins, Politician

"How does the Meadow flower its bloom unfold? Because the lovely little flower is free down to its root, and in that freedom bold"

William Wordsworth, Poet

"Countries are well cultivated, not as they are fertile, but as they are free"

Charles de Montesquieu, Philosopher

"I think it will be helpful to people because I know the expectations that are put on you as a sex symbol, and how Marilyn Monroe suffered and so on, and I was able to get free of that"

Kim Novak, Actress

"None who have always been free can understand the terrible fascinating power of the hope of freedom to those who are not free"

Pearl S. Buck, Novelist

"To serve is beautiful, but only if it is done with joy and a whole heart and a free mind"

Pearl S. Buck, Novelist

"Men would rather be starving and free than fed in bonds"

Pearl S. Buck, Novelist

"With a library you are free, not confined by temporary political climates. It is the most democratic of institutions because no one - but no one at all - can tell you what to read and when and how"

Doris Lessing, Writer

"The big difference between sex for money and sex for free is that sex for money usually costs a lot less"

Brendan Behan, Dramatist

"I know no national boundary where the Negro is concerned. The whole world is my province until Africa is free"

Marcus Garvey, Publisher

"A state too expensive in itself, or by virtue of its dependencies, ultimately falls into decay; its free government is transformed into a tyranny; it disregards the principles which it should preserve, and finally degenerates into despotism. The distinguishing characteristic of small republics is stability: the character of large republics is mutability"

Simon Bolivar, Leader

"A people that loves freedom will in the end be free"

Simon Bolivar, Leader

"Do not compare your material forces with those of the enemy. Spirit cannot be compared with matter. You are human beings, they are beasts. You are free, they are slaves"

Simon Bolivar, Leader

"It is harder to release a nation from servitude than to enslave a free nation"

Simon Bolivar, Leader

"In vain shall Great Britain confer upon her colonies the free government and liberal principles of legislation, for which she is distinguished, if she do not carry with her the revelations of God"

John Strachan, Clergyman

"When I don't feel free and can't do what I want I just react. I go against it"

Keanu Reeves, Actor

"The first need of a free people is to define their own terms"

Stokely Carmichael, Activist

"A man is born free"

Stokely Carmichael, Activist

"We must believe in free will, we have no choice"

Isaac Bashevis Singer, Novelist

"It's now expected of me that I will defy expectation, so I really generally seem to be free to write what I want"

Jonathan Lethem, Writer

"The one woman who never gives herself is your free woman, who is always giving herself"

David Herbert Lawrence, Writer

"No one can be perfectly free till all are free; no one can be perfectly moral till all are moral; no one can be perfectly happy till all are happy"

Herbert Spencer, Philosopher

"The spirit becomes free only when it ceases to be a support"

Franz Kafka, Novelist

"As long as men are free to ask what they must, free to say what they think, free to think what they will, freedom can never be lost and science can never regress"

Marcel Proust, Author

"No man may make another free"

Zora Neale Hurston, Dramatist

"We have to hate our immediate predecessors to get free of their authority"

David Herbert Lawrence, Writer

"I think being famous is more of a hindrance, a constraint, than just letting yourself be free"

Martin Yan, Celebrity

"Radical changes in world politics leave America with a heightened responsibility to be, for the world, an example of a genuinely free, democratic, just and humane society"

Pope John Paul II, Clergyman

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