Free Quotes

Justifying conscription to promote the cause of liberty is one of the most bizarre notions ever conceived by man! Forced servitude, with the risk of death and serious injury as a price to live free, makes no sense.

Real freedom is creative, proactive, and will take me into new territories. I am not free if my freedom is predicated on reacting to my past.

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

You might as well expect rivers to run backwards as any man born free to be contented penned up.

Mr. Lennon would want me free, and I'd like to clear that up.

I am in favor of complete freedom of information and of free access to the new communication tools, in particular the Internet.

People should be free, people should be unencumbered by regulation as much as possible, that big government always goes corrupt and the truth shall always set you free.

The TV business is uglier than most things. It is normally perceived as some kind of cruel and shallow money trench through the heart of the journalism industry, a long plastic hallway where thieves and pimps run free and good men die like dogs, for no good reason.

There is something so rewarding about dancing. It's almost spiritual - you let loose, you feel free, you get endorphins from the exercise.

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.

'Free' is more of that 'familiarity breeds contempt' kind of thing. It's about saying 'Wait, I'm longing for something more than I have and I don't know what it is that I want, but I know I want it.' It has nothing to do with what I'm going through, personally.

The only thing that ultimately matters is to eat an ice-cream cone, play a slide trombone, plant a small tree, good God, now you're free.

I think when the people in Burma stop thinking about whether or not they're free, it'll mean that they're free.

The critical importance of honest journalism and a free flowing, respectful national conversation needs to be had in our country. But it is being buried as collateral damage in a war whose battles include political correctness and ideological orthodoxy.

I am a firm believer in free but fair trade. However the United States should not be on the losing end of trade agreements that are not enforced. It is time that we make China play fairly.

American politics used to be an amateur sport. But somewhere along the way, we handed over to professionals all the things people used to do for free.

In my view, the Christian religion is the most important and one of the first things in which all children, under a free government ought to be instructed.

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.

I won't perform in Cuba until there's no more Castro and there's a free Cuba. To me, Cuba's the biggest prison in the world, and I would be very hypocritical were I to perform there.

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.

A free culture is not a culture without property; it is not a culture in which artists don't get paid.

If it's free, it's advice; if you pay for it, it's counseling; if you can use either one, it's a miracle.

The most important element of a free society, where individual rights are held in the highest esteem, is the rejection of the initiation of violence.

As far as feeling freedom in my career now versus five years ago... I think if I feel any more free it's simply because of the experiences that I've had, and the wisdom I've accumulated from that time.

Dictators free themselves, but they enslave the people.

You can free yourself from aging by reinterpreting your body and by grasping the link between belief and biology.

Information on the Internet must be as free as in the newspapers.

Everyone is of course free to interpret the work in his own way. I think seeing a picture is one thing and interpreting it is another.

The internet in hotels should be free - and I really resent it when they charge you five dollars for a bottle of water beside your bed.

I feel very free and very happy to be a composer.