Free Quotes

The day that this country ceases to be free for irreligion, it will cease to be free for religion.

~ Robert Jackson

In my view, the Christian religion is the most important and one of the first things in which all children, under a free government ought to be instructed.

~ Noah Webster

Viewed freely, the English language is the accretion and growth of every dialect, race, and range of time, and is both the free and compacted composition of all.

~ Walt Whitman

The time is near at hand which must determine whether Americans are to be free men or slaves.

~ George Washington

Make women rational creatures, and free citizens, and they will quickly become good wives; - that is, if men do not neglect the duties of husbands and fathers.

~ Mary Wollstonecraft

There's no limit to what free men and free women in a free market with free enterprise can accomplish when people are free to follow their dream.

~ Jack Kemp

I look my best when I'm totally free, on holiday, walking on the beach.

~ Rosamund Pike

The best things in life are free - and $19.95.

~ Billy Mays

There's an ease that I have living in Australia. The best things about Sydney are free: the sunshine's free, and the harbour's free, and the beach is free.

~ Russell Crowe

A well regulated militia, composed of the body of the people, trained in arms, is the best most natural defense of a free country.

~ James Madison

For a people who are free, and who mean to remain so, a well-organized and armed militia is their best security.

~ Thomas Jefferson

By taking to the road, we free ourselves of baggage, both physical and psychological. We walk back to our original condition, to our best selves.

~ Robyn Davidson

We can use decision-making to choose the habits we want to form, use willpower to get the habit started, then - and this is the best part - we can allow the extraordinary power of habit to take over. At that point, we're free from the need to decide and the need to use willpower.

~ Gretchen Rubin

It is not good to be too free. It is not good to have everything one wants.

~ Blaise Pascal

'Free Fallin' is a very good song. Maybe it would be one of my favorites if it hadn't become this huge anthem. But I'm grateful that people like it.

~ Tom Petty

Free is the best. Anything free is good.

~ Sandra Bullock

So that the record of history is absolutely crystal clear. That there is no alternative way, so far discovered, of improving the lot of the ordinary people that can hold a candle to the productive activities that are unleashed by a free enterprise system.

~ Milton Friedman

To this wonderful page in our country's history another more glorious still will be added, and the slave shall show at last to his free brothers a sharpened sword forged from the links of his fetters.

~ Giuseppe Garibaldi

The 4th Amendment and the personal rights it secures have a long history. At the very core stands the right of a man to retreat into his own home and there be free from unreasonable governmental intrusion.

~ Potter Stewart

We are fast approaching the stage of the ultimate inversion: the stage where the government is free to do anything it pleases, while the citizens may act only by permission; which is the stage of the darkest periods of human history, the stage of rule by brute force.

~ Ayn Rand

The Iraqi Free Press, which did not exist 18 months ago because there was no such thing as the Iraqi Free Press, broke a story about the U.N. Oil-for-Food scandal, which could potentially turn out to be the largest scandal in history.

~ Chris Chocola

The perfect life would be to have an amazing part every year and to spend all my free time to just write.

~ Melanie Laurent

At once I feel that comedy is this amazing sort of transcendent thing, and I'm also open to the fact that maybe it's just an evolutionary hiccup, something that upright apes do in their free time.

~ Bo Burnham

It is a paradox that every dictator has climbed to power on the ladder of free speech. Immediately on attaining power each dictator has suppressed all free speech except his own.

~ Herbert Hoover

A constant stream of 'free' money is a perfect way to keep an inefficient or simply bad government in power. As aid flows in, there is nothing more for the government to do - it doesn't need to raise taxes, and as long as it pays the army, it doesn't have to take account of its disgruntled citizens.

~ Dambisa Moyo

You only have power over people so long as you don't take everything away from them. But when you've robbed a man of everything, he's no longer in your power - he's free again.

~ Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

The thing you fear most has no power. Your fear of it is what has the power. Facing the truth really will set you free.

~ Oprah Winfrey

It is the Higher Power which does everything, and the man is only a tool. If he accepts that position, he is free from troubles; otherwise, he courts them.

~ Ramana Maharshi

Every American, regardless of their background, has the right to live free of unwarranted government intrusion. Repealing the worst provisions of the Patriot Act will reign in this gross abuse of power and restore to everyone our basic Constitutional rights.

~ Pete Stark

The power of storytelling is to free us from isolation, shame, and whatever the situation.

~ Patricia Mccormick

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.

~ Anatole France

The moment I have realized God sitting in the temple of every human body, the moment I stand in reverence before every human being and see God in him - that moment I am free from bondage, everything that binds vanishes, and I am free.

~ Swami Vivekananda

When you are spiritually connected, you are not looking for occasions to be offended, and you are not judging and labeling others. You are in a state of grace in which you know you are connected to God and thus free from the effects of anyone or anything external to yourself.

~ Wayne Dyer

There's too much tendency to attribute to God the evils that man does of his own free will.

~ Agatha Christie

Imagine a world in which every single person on the planet is given free access to the sum of all human knowledge. That's what we're doing.

~ Jimmy Wales

As citizens of a free society, we have a duty to look critically at our world. But if we think we know what is wrong, we must act upon that knowledge.

~ Tony Judt

Yoga is a way to freedom. By its constant practice, we can free ourselves from fear, anguish and loneliness.

~ Indra Devi

It is better for you to be free of fear lying upon a pallet, than to have a golden couch and a rich table and be full of trouble.

~ Epicurus

A man who is not afraid is not aggressive, a man who has no sense of fear of any kind is really a free, a peaceful man.

~ Jiddu Krishnamurti

I have a vision of India: an India free of hunger and fear, an India free of illiteracy and want.

~ Atal Bihari Vajpayee