Free Quotes

It is not the Government, the members of Parliament to whom the ultimate decision belongs, it is up to you to go forward sure of your sacred right of free opinion, sure of your patriotism.

~ John Amery

Let us be sure that those who come after will say of us in our time, that in our time we did everything that could be done. We finished the race; we kept them free; we kept the faith.

~ Ronald Reagan

Only our individual faith in freedom can keep us free.

~ Dwight D. Eisenhower

Fidelity and allegiance sworn to the King is only such a fidelity and obedience as is due to him by the law of the land; for were that faith and allegiance more than what the law requires, we would swear ourselves slaves and the King absolute; whereas, by the law, we are free men, notwithstanding those oaths.

~ Isaac Newton

The more frightening and sort of dark and oppressive a movie is, the more free you are to explore the supernatural and explore faith. The two just somehow go hand-in-hand really nicely.

~ Scott Derrickson

I'm very keen on having true freedom of expression. True freedom of faith. And free practice of religious faith.

~ Mohammed Morsi

Everything else - music, cinematography, costumes, design, acting - can be judged at face value. But when you're looking at editing, you don't know what the totality of the material was, and you don't know the working dynamic between a director and an editor - whether the editor was micromanaged or given free rein. It's very difficult.

~ Christopher Rouse

Marriage, a market which has nothing free but the entrance.

~ Michel De Montaigne

I think people are free to marry any way they want to. But churches are free to set standards for marriage.

~ Jeff Sessions

In the 18th century, people began to adopt the radical new idea that love should be the most fundamental reason for marriage and that young people should be free to choose their marriage partners independently.

~ Jardine Libaire

I came to trust in Jesus as my Savior after a two-year personal study of the Bible that convinced me that Scripture is free of contradiction and error - doctrinally, historically, and scientifically.

~ Hugh Ross

An essay is a thing of the imagination. If there is information in an essay, it is by-the-by, and if there is an opinion, one need not trust it for the long run. A genuine essay rarely has an educational, polemical, or sociopolitical use; it is the movement of a free mind at play.

~ Cynthia Ozick

Young people these days don't trust anything at all. They want to be free.

~ Haruki Murakami

The most important thing that I learned in growing up is that forgiveness is something that, when you do it, you free yourself to move on.

~ Tyler Perry

It all started when my dog began getting free roll over minutes.

~ Jay London

I saw the angel in the marble and carved until I set him free.

~ Michelangelo

I have fallen in love with the imagination. And if you fall in love with the imagination, you understand that it is a free spirit. It will go anywhere, and it can do anything.

~ Alice Walker

I imagine, therefore I belong and am free.

~ Lawrence Durrell

Given free rein, our imagination can get infinite.

~ Jim Harrison

There are many ways to be free. One of them is to transcend reality by imagination, as I try to do.

~ Anaïs Nin

Nonfiction is both easier and harder to write than fiction. It's easier because the facts are already laid out before you, and there is already a narrative arc. What makes it harder is that you are not free to use your imagination and creativity to fill in any missing gaps within the story.

~ Amy Bloom

Free enterprise empowers entrepreneurs who have ideas and imagination, investors who take risks, and workers who hone their skills and offer their labor.

~ Paul Ryan

For someone who writes fiction, in order to activate the imagination and the unconscious, it's essential to be free.

~ Manuel Puig

I always won in my imagination. I always hit the game-winning shot, or I hit the free throw. Or if I missed, there was a lane violation, and I was given another one.

~ Mike Krzyzewski

An artist must be free to choose what he does, certainly, but he must also never be afraid to do what he might choose.

~ Langston Hughes

An artist is forced by others to paint out of his own free will.

~ Willem De Kooning

I didn't come into politics to have to deal with the issue of clandestine entry, illegal working, or an asylum system that allows a free run for right-wing bigots.

~ David Blunkett

If you have embraced a creed which appears to be free from the ordinary dirtiness of politics - a creed from which you yourself cannot expect to draw any material advantage - surely that proves that you are in the right?

~ George Orwell

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.

~ Dwight D. Eisenhower

Those who write the editorials and those who write the columns, they simply are unaccountable. They're free to impose their cultural politics in the name of freedom of the press.

~ Jesse Jackson

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.

~ William O. Douglas

I like Ronald Reagan, who didn't play crass politics, and he just articulated and delivered on broad themes that were needed. Free markets meant free markets. Deregulation. Lower tax rates. Strong national defense. And he was credible and believable.

~ Dave Brat

You are almost not free, if you are teaching a group of graduate students, to become friends with one of them. I don't mean anything erotically charged, just a friendship.

~ Marilyn Hacker

It's a sad day when Republicans will attack fellow Republicans on an issue as fundamental as free enterprise.

~ Doug Ducey

I'm very free with all my emotions, whether it's happy, sad, mad, glad, whatever.

~ Kimberly Elise

If information wants to be free, then that's true everywhere, not just in information technology.

~ Mitch Kapor

All of technology, really, is about maximizing free options.

~ Nassim Nicholas Taleb

My mom was a free spirit, and she brought me up to be a free spirit.

~ Mark Bradford

I grew up with my mom being very, very cheap, so when it's free, I'm like, 'Oh my God, it's free - I have to take as much as I can!'

~ Anne Wojcicki

I grew up in rural Pennsylvania, in a really rundown old house. I'd stay out till 8:30, 9:00 at night. Just blow in. My mom and dad never really cared much. It was okay. We were pretty free to roam. I mean, I had no concept of stopping play. It just didn't occur to anyone.

~ Michael Keaton