Free Quotes

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.

~ Iggy Pop

My mom used to call us 'free range kids,' like free range chickens... We roamed the countryside.

~ William Moseley

Man is not free unless government is limited.

~ Ronald Reagan

It may be laid down as a primary position, and the basis of our system, that every Citizen who enjoys the protection of a Free Government, owes not only a proportion of his property, but even of his personal services to the defense of it.

~ George Washington

Cuba ought to be free and independent, and the government should be turned over to the Cuban people.

~ William Mckinley

Criticism of government finds sanctuary in several portions of the 1st Amendment. It is part of the right of free speech. It embraces freedom of the press.

~ Hugo Black

The essence of a free government consists in an effectual control of rivalries.

~ John Adams

The black market was a way of getting around government controls. It was a way of enabling the free market to work. It was a way of opening up, enabling people.

~ Milton Friedman

What I'm thinking about more and more these days is simply the importance of transparency, and Jefferson's saying that he'd rather have a free press without a government than a government without a free press.

~ Esther Dyson

The awakening of the people of China to the possibilities under free government is the most significant, if not the most momentous, event of our generation.

~ Woodrow Wilson

The Founding Fathers gave the free press the protection it must have to bare the secrets of government and inform the people.

~ Hugo Black

Net neutrality was essential for our economy; it was essential to preserve freedom and openness, both for economic reasons and free speech reasons, and the government had a role in ensuring that Internet freedom was protected.

~ Julius Genachowski

It appears first, that liberty is a natural, and government an adventitious right, because all men were originally free.

~ Thomas Clarkson

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.

~ George Bancroft

The Imperial German Government will not expect the Government of the United States to omit any word or any act necessary to the performance of its sacred duty of maintaining the rights of the United States and its citizens and of safeguarding their free exercise and enjoyment.

~ William Jennings Bryan

We no longer have a free market in the United States, we have a government controlled free market.

~ Jim Bunning

People like getting what they think is free stuff from government.

~ John Stossel

The government's objective, broadly expressed, is that all persons, whatever their level of ability, whether they live in town or country, have a right as citizens to a free education of the kind for which they are best fitted and to the fullest extent of their powers.

~ Peter Fraser

I've been on so many blind dates, I should get a free dog.

~ Wendy Liebman

There's no such thing as a free lunch.

~ Milton Friedman

Money will determine whether the accused goes to prison or walks out of the courtroom a free man.

~ Johnnie Cochran

The system that enables the most people to earn the most success is free enterprise, by matching up people's skills, interests, and abilities. In contrast, redistribution simply spreads money around. Even worse, it attenuates the ability to earn success by perverting economic incentives.

~ Arthur C. Brooks

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.

~ Roger Stone

I call Alibaba '1,001 mistakes.' We expanded too fast, and then in the dot-com bubble, we had to have layoffs. By 2002, we had only enough cash to survive for 18 months. We had a lot of free members using our site, and we didn't know how we'd make money. So we developed a product for China exporters to meet U.S. buyers online. This model saved us.

~ Jack Ma

If we command our wealth, we shall be rich and free; if our wealth commands us, we are poor indeed.

~ Edmund Burke

You want 21 percent risk free? Pay off your credit cards.

~ Andrew Tobias

The big difference between sex for money and sex for free is that sex for money usually costs a lot less.

~ Brendan Behan

We talk about a free press. These people hide, they make a lot of money off the media. They hide behind the slogans of free press, and then they can come out with crap like that. It's just garbage. It's insulting to the readers.

~ Robert Scheer

It's our money, and we're free to spend it any way we please.

~ Rose Kennedy

If you make a living, if you earn your own money, you're free - however free one can be on this planet.

~ Theodore White

The country that consistently ranks among the highest in educational achievement is Finland. A rich country, but education is free. Germany, education is free. France, education is free.

~ Noam Chomsky

Universal suffrage should rest upon universal education. To this end, liberal and permanent provision should be made for the support of free schools by the State governments, and, if need be, supplemented by legitimate aid from national authority.

~ Rutherford B. Hayes

On the diffusion of education among the people rest the preservation and perpetuation of our free institutions.

~ Daniel Webster

All free governments are managed by the combined wisdom and folly of the people.

~ James A. Garfield

Those who are free of resentful thoughts surely find peace.

~ Buddha

We know that dictators are quick to choose aggression, while free nations strive to resolve differences in peace.

~ George W. Bush

Some might complain that nuclear disarmament is little more than a dream. But that ignores the very tangible benefits disarmament would bring for all humankind. Its success would strengthen international peace and security. It would free up vast and much-needed resources for social and economic development. It would advance the rule of law.

~ Ban Ki-Moon

I most sincerely wish that the world in which we live be free from the threat of a nuclear holocaust and from the ruinous arms race. It is my cherished desire that peace be not separated from freedom which is the right of every nation. This I desire and for this I pray.

~ Lech Walesa

A people free to choose will always choose peace.

~ Ronald Reagan

Without free, self-respecting, and autonomous citizens there can be no free and independent nations. Without internal peace, that is, peace among citizens and between the citizens and the state, there can be no guarantee of external peace.

~ Václav Havel