Free Quotes

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

What a curious phenomenon it is that you can get men to die for the liberty of the world who will not make the little sacrifice that is needed to free themselves from their own individual bondage.

I was sort of open to do anything, I was free.

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

Can a nation be free if it oppresses other nations? It cannot.

In most of history, societies have not been free. It's a very rare society that is free. The default condition of human societies is tyranny.

The truth is found when men are free to pursue it.

For a generation, terrorists learned they could make war on free nations without fear of war in return. On September 12, the terrorists got war in return.

You're not free until you've been made captive by supreme belief.

Man is condemned to be free; because once thrown into the world, he is responsible for everything he does.

I was who I was in high school in accordance with the rules of conduct for a normal person, like obeying your mom and dad. Then I got out of high school and moved out of the house, and I just started, for lack of a better term, running free.

Certainly in cartooning I'm given huge free rein at the moment.

Free nations with different histories, economies and a vast amount of stubborn pride will never achieve complete agreement, even when they desire the same objectives.

I've been giving free money seminars for the troops at Walter Reed Hospital and one of the Iraqi War Vets realized that the military wouldn't pay for the dental work he needed.

Money is speech. It's incongruous to say a multimillionaire can spend as much on his own campaign as he wants, but you can only give $2,300. His free speech rights are different from yours, thus violating the Equal Protection Clause of the Constitution. It's absurd.

It is not empty rhetoric to talk of the Free World.

Once you depart from the Ten Commandments as being the foundation of right and wrong, you are in a free fall.

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.

It's important to me that I should be free to express myself.

The more consciously democratic Americans became, however, the less they were satisfied with a conception of the Promised Land, which went no farther than a pervasive economic prosperity guaranteed by free institutions.

Yoga is a way to freedom. By its constant practice, we can free ourselves from fear, anguish and loneliness.

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.

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

Many politicians are in the habit of laying it down as a self-evident proposition that no people ought to be free till they are fit to use their freedom. The maxim is worthy of the fool in the old story who resolved not to go into the water till he had learned to swim.

International socialism recognizes the right of free independent nations, with equal rights.

While there is a lower class, I am in it, while there is a criminal element, I am of it, and while there is a soul in prison, I am not free.

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

We are hated because we are free. We are hated because of the idea that is the United States of America. We are hated because of our Constitution.

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.

I think the most liberating thing I did early on was to free myself from any concern with my looks as they pertained to my work.