Free Quotes

But while we all pray for peace, we do not always, as free citizens, support the policies that make for peace or reject those which do not. We want our own kind of peace, brought about in our own way.

~ Lester B. Pearson

To be free is to have achieved your life.

~ Tennessee Williams

Smile, it's free therapy.

~ Douglas Horton

The gospel sets us free to become the romantic leaders of our marriages without fright or hesitation. Because we have been forever wooed by Jesus, we are now free to forever woo our wives.

~ Tullian Tchividjian

The concept of romantic love affords a means of emotional manipulation which the male is free to exploit, since love is the only circumstance in which the female is (ideologically) pardoned for sexual activity.

~ Kate Millett

I suspect the real reason the N.F.L. and N.B.A. don't want high schoolers and college underclassmen to play with their ball is that they don't want to jeopardize their relationship with National Collegiate Athletic Association, which serves as a sort of free minor league and unpaid promotional department for the pros.

~ David Shields

A critical factor in its success was that the X developers were willing to give the sources away for free in accordance with the hacker ethic, and able to distribute them over the Internet.

~ Eric S. Raymond

Modernism in other arts brought extreme difficulty. In poetry, the characteristic difficulty imported under the name of modernism was obscurity. But obscurity could just as easily be a quality of metrical as of free verse.

~ James Fenton

I think if a poet wanted to lead, he or she would want the message to be unequivocally clear and free of ambiguity. Whereas poetry is actually the home of ambiguity, ambivalence and uncertainty.

~ Billy Collins

With a poetry book I can send 100 copies out to reviewers and other people, and even do it in advance and get their response. It's difficult with iPad: how do you send it out for free, and how do you even disseminate it before it goes into their store?

~ Felix Dennis

If a poem is not memorable, there's probably something wrong. One of the problems of free verse is that much of the free verse poetry is not memorable.

~ Robert Morgan

The voice is raised, and that is where poetry begins. And even today, in the prolonged aftermath of modernism, in places where 'open form' or free verse is the orthodoxy, you will find a memory of that raising of the voice in the term 'heightened speech.'

~ James Fenton

Only free men can negotiate. A prisoner cannot enter into contracts.

~ Nelson Mandela

You know that being an American is more than a matter of where your parents came from. It is a belief that all men are created free and equal and that everyone deserves an even break.

~ Harry S Truman

Men may die, but the fabrics of free institutions remains unshaken.

~ Chester A. Arthur

Man is not the creature of circumstances, circumstances are the creatures of men. We are free agents, and man is more powerful than matter.

~ Benjamin Disraeli

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

~ Franklin D. Roosevelt

The Framers of the Constitution knew that free speech is the friend of change and revolution. But they also knew that it is always the deadliest enemy of tyranny.

~ Hugo Black

If you get stuck, draw with a different pen. Change your tools; it may free your thinking.

~ Paul Arden

There was something undifferentiated and yet complete, which existed before Heaven and Earth. Soundless and formless, it depends on nothing and does not change. It operates everywhere and is free from danger. It may be considered the mother of the universe. I do not know its name; I call it Tao.

~ Lao Tzu

Home life ceases to be free and beautiful as soon as it is founded on borrowing and debt.

~ Henrik Ibsen

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

~ Elmer Davis

We know that when people are safe in their homes, they are free to pursue their dream for a brighter economic future for themselves and their families.

~ George Pataki

Whatever my individual desires were to be free, I was not alone. There were many others who felt the same way.

~ Rosa Parks

A well-instructed people alone can be permanently a free people.

~ James Madison

He alone is free who lives with free consent under the entire guidance of reason.

~ Baruch Spinoza

Others indeed may talk, and write, and fight about liberty, and make an outward pretence to it; but the free-thinker alone is truly free.

~ George Berkeley

I'm not alone, I'm free. I no longer have to be a credit, I don't have to be a symbol to anybody; I don't have to be a first to anybody.

~ Lena Horne

Over the past several decades, a growing number of investors have been choosing to put their money in funds that screen companies for their environmental and labor records. Some socially responsible investors are starting to add free expression and privacy to their list of criteria.

~ Rebecca Mackinnon

Sustainability goes across everything I do with Adidas and everything I do with my own house, so the Olympic kit is no exception. It is incredibly environmental in the way that it is manufactured. For example, there's no leather; it's free from PVC. There's lots of woven materials, which means a lot less waste.

~ Stella Mccartney

No one needs to tell me about the importance of the free press in a democratic society or about the essential role a newspaper can play in its community.

~ Robert Kennedy

Free speech has been used by the Supreme Court to give immense power to the wealthiest members of our society.

~ Noam Chomsky

If society will not admit of woman's free development, then society must be remodeled.

~ Elizabeth Blackwell

The very word 'secrecy' is repugnant in a free and open society; and we are as a people inherently and historically opposed to secret societies, to secret oaths, and to secret proceedings.

~ John F. Kennedy

Two things form the bedrock of any open society - freedom of expression and rule of law. If you don't have those things, you don't have a free country.

~ Salman Rushdie

If a free society cannot help the many who are poor, it cannot save the few who are rich.

~ John F. Kennedy

If we wish to preserve a free society, it is essential that we recognize that the desirability of a particular object is not sufficient justification for the use of coercion.

~ Friedrich August Von Hayek

The first principle of a free society is an untrammeled flow of words in an open forum.

~ Adlai E. Stevenson

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.

~ Jean Cocteau

We can't just have mainstream behavior on television in a free society, we have to make sure we see the whole panorama of human behavior.

~ Jerry Springer