Free Quotes

"A well regulated militia, composed of the body of the people, trained in arms, is the best most natural defense of a free country"

James Madison, President

"A man has a property in his opinions and the free communication of them"

James Madison, President

"We all pay for life with death, so everything in between should be free"

Bill Hicks, Comedian

"I'm all in favour of free expression provided it's kept rigidly under control"

Alan Bennett, Dramatist

"The only way that has ever been discovered to have a lot of people cooperate together voluntarily is through the free market. And that's why it's so essential to preserving individual freedom"

Milton Friedman, Economist

"The most important single central fact about a free market is that no exchange takes place unless both parties benefit"

Milton Friedman, Economist

"The black market was a way of getting around government controls. It was a way of enabling the free market to work. It was a way of opening up, enabling people"

Milton Friedman, Economist

"So that the record of history is absolutely crystal clear. That there is no alternative way, so far discovered, of improving the lot of the ordinary people that can hold a candle to the productive activities that are unleashed by a free enterprise system"

Milton Friedman, Economist

"No man who knows aught, can be so stupid to deny that all men naturally were born free"

John Milton, Poet

"Grant me thirty years of equal division of inheritances and a free press, and I will provide you with a republic"

Alexis de Tocqueville, Historian

"When I think of a merry, happy, free young girl - and look at the ailing, aching state a young wife generally is doomed to - which you can't deny is the penalty of marriage"

Queen Victoria, Royalty

"This is a free country. Folks have a right to send me letters, and I have a right not to read them"

William Faulkner, Novelist

"I am a conservative Republican, a firm believer in free market capitalism. A free market system allows all parties to compete, which ensures the best and most competitive project emerges, and ensures a fair, democratic process"

Sarah Palin, Politician

"I like to be a free spirit. Some don't like that, but that's the way I am"

Princess Diana, Royalty

"A major source of objection to a free economy is precisely that group thinks they ought to want. Underlying most arguments against the free market is a lack of belief in freedom itself"

Milton Friedman, Economist

"If I take death into my life, acknowledge it, and face it squarely, I will free myself from the anxiety of death and the pettiness of life - and only then will I be free to become myself"

Martin Heidegger, Philosopher

"Flow with whatever may happen and let your mind be free. Stay centered by accepting whatever you are doing. This is the ultimate"

Zhuangzi, Philosopher

"Any school for free citizens must begin by teaching distrust, not trust. It must teach questioning, not acceptance of stock answers"

Brian Herbert, Author

"Freedom is an elusive concept. Some men hold themselves prisoner even when they have the power to do as they please and go where they choose, while others are free in their hearts, even as shackles restrain them"

Brian Herbert, Author

"All men are born equally free"

Salmon P. Chase, Politician

"God, our genes, our environment, or some stupid programmer keying in code at an ancient terminal - there's no way free will can ever exist if we as individuals are the result of some external cause"

Orson Scott Card, Writer

"For someone who writes fiction, in order to activate the imagination and the unconscious, it's essential to be free"

Manuel Puig, Author

"Our free enterprise system of disseminating information is collectively referred to as The Media. But there is no collective"

Jessica Savitch, Journalist

"You can only be free if I am free"

Clarence Darrow, Lawyer

"For myself I hold no preferences among flowers, so long as they are wild, free, spontaneous. Bricks to all greenhouses! Black thumb and cutworm to the potted plant!"

Edward Abbey, Author

"Freedom of the press is not an end in itself but a means to the end of achieving a free society"

Felix Frankfurter, Judge

"The benefits of education and of useful knowledge, generally diffused through a community, are essential to the preservation of a free government"

Sam Houston, Politician

"The peoples of Asia, Africa, and Latin America have common interest and are in the position to support each other in their anti-imperialist and anti-U.S. struggle. As long as Africa and Latin America are not free"

Kim Il-sung, Leader

"Be free all worthy spirits, and stretch yourselves, for greatness and for height"

George Chapman, Poet

"When I discover who I am, I'll be free"

Ralph Ellison, Author

"In order to understand what they need to understand, in order to write what they write, they have to be free. And yet, they aren't ever free. They are not free because they are not free of the constrictions their art puts on them"

Peter Davison, Actor

"But there is some way in which poets believe that and this is dangerous, too believe that their calling gives them a certain freedom. A certain freedom to live in a free way"

Peter Davison, Actor

"I think operating systems work best if they're free and open. Particular applications are more likely to be proprietary"

Larry Wall, Author

"But while we all pray for peace, we do not always, as free citizens, support the policies that make for peace or reject those which do not. We want our own kind of peace, brought about in our own way"

Lester B. Pearson, Politician

"Hosni Mubarak... his constitution is not democratic, but he is democratic. We can voice our opinions now. The press is free"

Naguib Mahfouz, Novelist

"In our period, they say there is free speech. They say there is no penalty for poets, There is no penalty for writing poems. They say this. This is the penalty"

Muriel Rukeyser, Poet

"We believe it wrong ever to take a dollar from a free citizen without a very necessary public purpose, because each such taking diminishes the freedom to spend that dollar as its owner would prefer"

Mitch Daniels, Politician

"When the public's right to know is threatened, and when the rights of free speech and free press are at risk, all of the other liberties we hold dear are endangered"

Christopher Dodd, Politician

"Chase after the truth like all hell and you'll free yourself, even though you never touch its coat tails"

Clarence Darrow, Lawyer

"I must be free... free to do what I like, say what I like, write what I like, within the limits prescribed for me by my own sense of what is seemly and fitting"

Thomas Edward Brown, Poet

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