Free Quotes

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

Where the press is free and every man able to read, all is safe.

No government ought to be without censors; and where the press is free no one ever will.

The challenge as we saw in the Nigerian project was to restructure the economy decisively in the direction of a modern free market as an appropriate environment for cultivation of freedom and democracy and the natural emergence of a new social order.

We may affirm, then, that the main drift of the later Renaissance was away from a humanism that favored a free expansion toward a humanism that was in the highest degree disciplinary and selective.

In order to live free and happily you must sacrifice boredom. It is not always an easy sacrifice.

If you love someone, set them free. If they come back they're yours; if they don't they never were.

I sometimes lament the fact that I do not have the benefit of a complete and ailment free body structure.

The rapid growth in many of our suburbs has spawned a booming construction industry eager to hire low wage immigrants who gladly fill these jobs, many of them happy to be paid in cash, free of federal and state taxes.

NAFTA and GATT have about as much to do with free trade as the Patriot Act has to do with liberty.

I think the blues is fine for blues players, but free blues has never made much sense to me.

Personally, I've found one of the more stimulating ways of playing in recent times has been to kind of move outside the free improvised area and work with people who are probably improvisers but they have a particular way of working.

That a majority of the Abolitionists in this place would patronize a free labor store, in preference to others, I do not doubt; but we do not muster money in Cincinnati.

Wikipedia is just an incredible thing. It is fact-encirclingly huge, and it is idiosyncratic, careful, messy, funny, shocking and full of simmering controversies - and it is free, and it is fast.

I used to have to save my allowances to buy a quart of rubber to make a mask, and it's how I spent all my free time.

People go to church for the same reasons they go to a tavern: to stupefy themselves, to forget their misery, to imagine themselves, for a few minutes anyway, free and happy.

Confronted with the impossibility of remaining faithful to one's beliefs, and the equal impossibility of becoming free of them, one can be driven to the most inhuman excesses.

For the first time I'm free to be myself.

A mother who is really a mother is never free.

I occasionally go to the gym and I lift free weights, I don't use machines.

The best government rests on the people, and not on the few, on persons and not on property, on the free development of public opinion and not on authority.

You can still sit under the tree where Dr. Livingstone negotiated with slave traders to set people free.

Cats are very independent animals. They're very sexy, if you want. Dogs are different. They're familiar. They're obedient. You call a cat, you go, 'Cat, come here.' He doesn't come to you unless you have something in your hand that he thinks might be food. They're very free animals, and I like that.

I have been absolutely hag-ridden with ambition. If I could wish to have anything in the world it would be to be free of ambition.

I've read some of your modern free verse and wonder who set it free.

If we command our wealth, we shall be rich and free; if our wealth commands us, we are poor indeed.

Free trade is not based on utility but on justice.

If we wish to free ourselves from enslavement, we must choose freedom and the responsibility this entails.

Some people believe God is involved in every little decision we make. Some people believe you're given the free will to make the decisions. Sometimes people believe God is not involved at all.

We didn't have any segregation at the Cotton Club. No. The Cotton Club was wide open, it was free.

I want completing the single market to be our driving mission. I want us to be at the forefront of transformative trade deals with the US, Japan and India as part of the drive towards global free trade. And I want us to be pushing to exempt Europe's smallest entrepreneurial companies from more EU directives.

For people on social assistance, the loss of free dental care, prescription drugs and subsidized housing can greatly outweigh additional income from working. We've all heard the stories.

The only way to deal with an unfree world is to become so absolutely free that your very existence is an act of rebellion.

I thought to myself, Join the army. It's free. So I figured while I'm here I'll lose a few pounds.

Remove grace, and you have nothing whereby to be saved. Remove free will and you have nothing that could be saved.

Traffic was very, very free. It was great.

Several amendments should be made to the primary and general election laws to improve them, but such changes must in no way interfere with a full and free expression of the people's choice in naming the candidates to be voted on at general elections.

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.

I don't know, people take chances on stage. It's a big free speech zone, a comedy show. So sometimes things happen, you say things that are a little bit off the edge.

By adopting the 'free trade,' or British, system, we place ourselves side by side with the men who have ruined Ireland and India, and are now poisoning and enslaving the Chinese people.

Now for my own case, I bless the Lord that, for all that hath been said of me, my conscience doth not condemn me. I do not say I am free of sin, but I am at peace with God through a slain Mediator; and I believe that there is no salvation but only in Christ.

Everywhere the human soul stands between a hemisphere of light and another of darkness; on the confines of the two everlasting empires, necessity and free will.

Dictators free themselves, but they enslave the people.

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

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

The magistrates are the ministers for the laws, the judges their interpreters, the rest of us are servants of the law, that we all may be free.

He does not seem to me to be a free man who does not sometimes do nothing.

Publishers see free downloads as threatening the sales of the book.

Henceforth, we shall be happy to be a free citizen in an independent country.

I just go out and play.

I hadn't been free from adult responsibilities since I was 12, and I needed to experience that. I really needed to just be a kid again.

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.

The pursuit of truth will set you free; even if you never catch up with it.

You can only be free if I am free.

I'm very much in support of the free press, but the free press ought to be educational and informative. And I believe they have fallen down recently on that.

If you think you're free, there's no escape possible.

When I look at my life, I see that I wanted to be free of the physical plane, the psychological plane, and when I got free of those I didn't want to go anywhere near them.

Anything that's for free, people will take. They don't discriminate.

And, I hope now that everybody understands that the Labour Party - as it always has done - stands for free speech and individual Members of the Labour Party are entitled to exercise that free speech.

This nation will remain the land of the free only so long as it is the home of the brave.

This will remain the land of the free only so long as it is the home of the brave.

I am very comfortable with the idea that we can override biology with free will.

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

I only ask to be free. The butterflies are free.

Man is not the creature of circumstances, circumstances are the creatures of men. We are free agents, and man is more powerful than matter.

Man, so long as he remains free, has no more constant and agonizing anxiety than find as quickly as possible someone to worship.

I could, as a free man, look across the bay toward the Eastern Shore where I was born a slave.

To suppress free speech is a double wrong. It violates the rights of the hearer as well as those of the speaker.

No one is free, even the birds are chained to the sky.

Catholic theology believes that God gave man free will, and you can't give somebody free will and then send in a play from the sidelines.

The history of free men is never really written by chance but by choice; their choice!

Only our individual faith in freedom can keep us free.

The free world must not prove itself worthy of its own past.

Politics ought to be the part-time profession of every citizen who would protect the rights and privileges of free people and who would preserve what is good and fruitful in our national heritage.

On those, I've said it before, I work free. It's the waiting they pay me for.