Free Quotes

The most important element of a free society, where individual rights are held in the highest esteem, is the rejection of the initiation of violence.

~ Ron Paul

Without a moral framework, there is nothing left but immediate self-indulgence by some and the path of least resistance by others. Neither can sustain a free society.

~ Thomas Sowell

In many respects, the United States is a great country. Freedom of speech is protected more than in any other country. It is also a very free society.

~ Noam Chomsky

I think the enemy is self-censorship. In a free society the biggest danger is that you're afraid to the point where you censor yourself.

~ Tim Robbins

The more democratic and open a society is, the more it's exposed to terrorism. The more a country is free, not governed by a police regime, the more it risks hijackings or massacres like the ones that took place for many years in Italy and Germany and other parts of Europe.

~ Oriana Fallaci

The core political values of our free society are so deeply embedded in our collective consciousness that only a few malcontents, lunatics generally, ever dare to threaten them.

~ John Mccain

I will spend the next four years rebuilding the foundation of a opportunity society led by free people and free enterprises.

~ Mitt Romney

As intelligent and responsible filmmakers, working in a free society, we have a duty to ensure that our chosen medium is a force for good. Especially in this ever-more complex and difficult world.

~ David Puttnam

Even in democratic society, we don't have good answers how to balance the need for security on one hand and the protection of free speech on the other in our digital networks.

~ Rebecca Mackinnon

That I have the right to express myself freely at all times in all circumstances entails the idea that free speech is a 'basic human right' possessed by each individual, and, as such, trumps the interests of the society or group, including my neighbour.

~ Tom Stoppard

If you want a free society, teach your children what oppression tastes like. Tell them how many miracles it takes to get from here to there. Above all, encourage them to ask questions. Teach them to think for themselves.

~ Jonathan Sacks

To fulfill the promise of economic opportunity, we must remain true to the principle that collective bargaining is a cornerstone of a free society and indispensable to a strong middle class.

~ Thomas Perez

The right combination is between a free economy and social policy that addresses the needs of society and creates equal opportunity.

~ Benjamin Netanyahu

In a free society the state does not administer the affairs of men. It administers justice among men who conduct their own affairs.

~ Walter Lippmann

Getting rid of the dictator is only a first step in establishing a free society. The dictatorship must also be disassembled.

~ George Ayittey

To give up the task of reforming society is to give up one's responsibility as a free man.

~ Alan Paton

If taxes are laid upon us in any shape without our having a legal representation where they are laid, are we not reduced from the character of free subjects to the miserable state of tributary slaves? We claim British rights not by charter only! We are born to them.

~ Samuel Adams

We have a legal and moral obligation to rid our world of nuclear tests and nuclear weapons. When we put an end to nuclear tests, we get closer to eliminating all nuclear weapons. A world free of nuclear weapons will be safer and more prosperous.

~ Ban Ki-Moon

It is not unprofessional to give free legal advice, but advertising that the first visit will be free is a bit like a fox telling chickens he will not bite them until they cross the threshold of the hen house.

~ Warren E. Burger

A free and open Internet should not have to be weighed down by legal challenges - its dynamism is essential to our economy.

~ Anna Eshoo

I'm a hardcore libertarian - I want everything legal - but I also believe that you have the right to free association.

~ Penn Jillette

We stand for free speech. This means we are not going to ban distasteful subreddits. We will not ban legal content even if we find it odious or if we personally condemn it.

~ Yishan Wong

The only way to deal with an unfree world is to become so absolutely free that your very existence is an act of rebellion.

~ Albert Camus

I would like to be remembered as a person who wanted to be free... so other people would be also free.

~ Rosa Parks

Emancipate yourselves from mental slavery, none but ourselves can free our minds!

~ Marcus Garvey

Man is free at the moment he wishes to be.

~ Voltaire

It is difficult to free fools from the chains they revere.

~ Voltaire

A free press can, of course, be good or bad, but, most certainly without freedom, the press will never be anything but bad.

~ Albert Camus

Underlying most arguments against the free market is a lack of belief in freedom itself.

~ Milton Friedman

Man will never be free until the last king is strangled with the entrails of the last priest.

~ Denis Diderot

Indeed, a major source of objection to a free economy is precisely that it... gives people what they want instead of what a particular group thinks they ought to want. Underlying most arguments against the free market is a lack of belief in freedom itself.

~ Milton Friedman

When we lose the right to be different, we lose the privilege to be free.

~ Charles Evans Hughes

I love the pigeons. I just raise them, period, and feed them. Pigeons go away, and they always come back. You get a touch of freedom, and then they are free to come back to you. I love the idea of pigeons.

~ George Foreman

How does the Meadow flower its bloom unfold? Because the lovely little flower is free down to its root, and in that freedom bold.

~ William Wordsworth

The only way that has ever been discovered to have a lot of people cooperate together voluntarily is through the free market. And that's why it's so essential to preserving individual freedom.

~ Milton Friedman

Human beings want to be free and however long they may agree to stay locked up, to stay oppressed, there will come a time when they say 'That's it.' Suddenly they find themselves doing something that they never would have thought they would be doing, simply because of the human instinct that makes them turn their face towards freedom.

~ Aung San Suu Kyi

Free software is software that respects your freedom and the social solidarity of your community. So it's free as in freedom.

~ Richard Stallman

A man is either free or he is not. There cannot be any apprenticeship for freedom.

~ Amiri Baraka

There is no such thing as a little freedom. Either you are all free, or you are not free.

~ Walter Cronkite

My father always said, 'Malala will be free as a bird.'

~ Malala Yousafzai