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I am no bird; and no net ensnares me; I am a free human being with an independent will. (Charlotte Brontë)
The people currently in charge have forgotten the first principle of an open society, namely that we may be wrong and that there has to be free discussion. That it's possible to be opposed to the policies without being unpatriotic. View quote
George Soros
Critics don't buy records. They get 'em free. View quote
Nat King Cole
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. View quote
William O. Douglas
The Fifth Amendment is an old friend and a good friend, one of the great landmarks in men's struggle to be free of tyranny, to be decent and civilized. View quote
William O. Douglas
God is not willing to do everything, and thus take away our free will and that share of glory which belongs to us. View quote
Niccolò Machiavelli
No one can be perfectly free till all are free; no one can be perfectly moral till all are moral; no one can be perfectly happy till all are happy. View quote
Herbert Spencer
The four characteristics of humanism are curiosity, a free mind, belief in good taste, and belief in the human race. View quote
E. M. Forster
The time is near at hand which must determine whether Americans are to be free men or slaves. View quote
George Washington
The truth is cruel, but it can be loved, and it makes free those who have loved it. View quote
George Santayana
The free way of life proposes ends, but it does not prescribe means. (Robert F. Kennedy)
Free speech means the right to shout 'theatre' in a crowded fire. View quote
Abbie Hoffman
From too much love of living, From hope and fear set free, We thank with brief thanksgiving Whatever gods may be That no man lives forever, That dead men rise up never; That even the weariest river Winds somewhere safe to sea. View quote
Algernon Charles Swinburne
Software is like sex: it's better when it's free. View quote
Linus Torvalds
I would rather belong to a poor nation that was free than to a rich nation that had ceased to be in love with liberty. View quote
Woodrow Wilson
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. View quote
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
All free governments are managed by the combined wisdom and folly of the people. View quote
James A. Garfield
I know where I'm going and I know the truth, and I don't have to be what you want me to be. I'm free to be what I want. View quote
Muhammad Ali
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. View quote
Václav Havel
I would like to be remembered as a person who wanted to be free... so other people would be also free. View quote
Rosa Parks
If I take death into my life, acknowledge it, and face it squarely, I will free myself from the anxiety of death and the pettiness of life - and only then will I be free to become myself. (Martin Heidegger)
Fear of serious injury cannot alone justify suppression of free speech and assembly. Men feared witches and burnt women. It is the function of speech to free men from the bondage of irrational fears. View quote
Louis Brandeis
I saw the angel in the marble and carved until I set him free. View quote
Michelangelo
We must believe in free will, we have no choice. View quote
Isaac Bashevis Singer
Whoever will be free must make himself free. Freedom is no fairy gift to fall into a man's lap. What is freedom? To have the will to be responsible for one's self. View quote
Max Stirner
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