Free Quotes

I'm William Wallace, and the rest of you will be spared. Go back to England and tell them... Scotland is free!

Swedes are such a civilised, perfect society - at least on the surface. There's a great safety net, a huge middle class, free education, free health care. People are very polite, they wait their turn. They're not too loud, they're not too quiet, but sometimes it's a little too perfect.

When I don't feel free and can't do what I want I just react. I go against it.

When people are free to do as they please, they usually imitate each other.

A free society is one where it is safe to be unpopular.

When we are unwilling to draw clear moral lines between free societies and fear societies, when we are unwilling to call the former good and the latter evil, we will not be able to advance the cause of peace because peace cannot be disconnected from freedom.

In a free world there is, alas, more common crime than in a dictatorial system.

My happiest moment is the day they call wrap and I'm free. I'm not looking back.

Europe is a collection of free countries.

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.

Emmy Lou Harris introduced me to the work of the Vietnam Veterans of America foundation and the Campaign for a Land Mine Free World.

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

Free speech is not to be regulated like diseased cattle and impure butter. The audience that hissed yesterday may applaud today, even for the same performance.

If food were free, why work?

No government ought to be without censors; and where the press is free, no one ever will. Chance is the pseudonym of God when he did not want to sign.

The air of England has long been too pure for a slave, and every man is free who breathes it.

Man is free whenever he produces or manifests God, and through this he becomes immortal.

I mainly buy books in my free time.

When America closes its doors, so does everybody else. We are the primary engine of growth in the world and we are the only beacon of free trade left, and open markets.

We know from our own history that democratic institutions take decades to mature, and we know from past conflicts that freedom is not free.

Free enterprise, individual opportunity, limited government. They made America great; only they can keep America strong.

Blind and unwavering undisciplined at all times constitutes the real strength of all free men.

I was sent there by the Free Congress Committee, headed by Paul Weyrich. Fred Smith and I were sent down as observers, with reporters' credentials, so we could witness the events.

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

What had begun as a movement to free all black people from racist oppression became a movement with its primary goal the establishment of black male patriarchy.

This is the marketplace of political ideas. This is how America operates. It's a free market. It's free-wheeling. From the outside, it looks unpredictable. There's a circus-like free market.

Will dissent be permitted? The answer to that question will determine whether the society is a free society or a fear society.

As Americans, we don't see the role of government as guaranteeing outcomes, but allowing free men and women to flourish based on their own vision, their hard work and their personal responsibility.

Life ceases to be so oppressive: we are free to give our own lives meaning and purpose, free to redeem our suffering by making something of it.

President Obama insists he's a free-market guy. But you have to wonder whether he understands how a free economy really works.