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Men have looked upon the desert as barren land, the free holding of whoever chose; but in fact each hill and valley in it had a man who was its acknowledged owner and would quickly assert the right of his family or clan to it, against aggression.

I hope for nothing. I fear nothing. I am free.

The instinct of nearly all societies is to lock up anybody who is truly free. First, society begins by trying to beat you up. If this fails, they try to poison you. If this fails too, the finish by loading honors on your head.

To be free is to have achieved your life.

The person who has nothing for which he is willing to fight, nothing which is more important than his own personal safety, is a miserable creature and has no chance of being free unless made and kept so by the exertions of better men than himself.

All the big powers they've silenced me. So much for free speech and choice on this fundamental human right.

In an age robbed of religious symbols, going to the shops replaces going to the church. We have a free choice, but at a price. We can win experience, but never achieve innocence. Marx knew that the epic activities of the modern world involve not lance and sword but dry goods.

I had looked forward so eagerly to leaving the horrible place, yet when my release came and I knew that God's sunlight was to be free for me again, there was a certain pain in leaving.

We must reinvent a future free of blinders so that we can choose from real options.

If it were possible to have a life absolutely free from every feeling of sin, what a terrifying vacuum it would be.

Too much free time is certainly a monkey's paw in disguise. Most people can't handle a structureless life.

Defect-free software does not exist.

Every nation on the Earth that embraces market economics and the free enterprise system is pulling millions of its people out of poverty. The free enterprise system creates prosperity, not denies it.

The main engagement of the writer is towards truthfulness; therefore he must keep his mind and his judgement free.

I was born 20 years after my eldest sister. I was the pampered child. That kind of love gives you an almost unbreakable backbone. My mother had three kids before me. She let me be completely free. I just never had anything to beat myself up over.

May God permit us both to return to a free and independent Poland.

Viewed freely, the English language is the accretion and growth of every dialect, race, and range of time, and is both the free and compacted composition of all.

Only in our dreams are we free. The rest of the time we need wages.

For starters, this country embodies something utterly unique: History's first democratic empire. Beginning in the post war era, we have used free trade and democracy to create a series of interlocking relationships that end war.

This free will business is a bit terrifying anyway. It's almost pleasanter to obey, and make the most of it.

I know where I'm going and I know the truth, and I don't have to be what you want me to be. I'm free to be what I want.

Imagine a world in which every single person on the planet is given free access to the sum of all human knowledge. That's what we're doing.

If a man carries his horse out of a slave State into a free one, be does not lose his property interest in him; but if he carries his slave into a free State, the law makes him free.

We all now tell stories by cutting from one dramatic scene to the next, whereas Victorian novelists felt free to write long passages of undramatic summary.

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

We are on pace this year to have a trade deficit that is larger than $800 billion. We have never faced that before, but we continue to put forward trade agreements like these that leave us naked to competition that is neither free nor fair.

There are people in England that claim benefits because they are too nervous to work, so they claim their benefits for anxiety and never have to go out side there free home.

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

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

There is one class of men, whom it especially behoves to be tenacious of the right of free discussion. I mean the poor.