America's fighting men and women sacrifice much to ensure that our great nation stays free. We owe a debt of gratitude to the soldiers that have paid the ultimate price for this cause, as well as for those who are blessed enough to return from the battlefield unscathed.
~By Allen Boyd ~
My kids are not known, and I think that is very important. So far they have lived a normal life, and will continue to do so. I feel they should have the possibility to live a free life without the burden of fame I have created.
~By Michael Schumacher ~
Freedom is the by-product of economic surplus.
~By Aneurin Bevan ~
I regard the principle of conscription of life as a flat contradiction of all our cherished ideals of individual freedom, democratic liberty and Christian teaching.
~By Roger Nash Baldwin ~
If liberty has any meaning it means freedom to improve.
~By Philip Wylie ~
When one has the feeling of dislike for evil, when one feels tranquil, one finds pleasure in listening to good teachings; when one has these feelings and appreciates them, one is free of fear.
~By Buddha ~
I believe that the high rates of property crime (and some of the increase in violent crime) are part of the price you pay for freedom.
~By James Q. Wilson ~
We've created an impression that life is risk-free, and it's not.
~By Alastair Wood ~
Excessive dealings with tyrants are not good for the security of free states.
~By Demosthenes ~
The American people are being victimized more than any free market would warrant.
~By Gordon Smith ~
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.
~By Woodrow Wilson ~
The good pleasure of God is an act of the divine will freely and effectively determining all things.
~By William Ames ~
Until we are all free, we are none of us free.
~By Emma Lazarus ~
Most people do not really want freedom, because freedom involves responsibility, and most people are frightened of responsibility.
~By Sigmund Freud ~
In particular, this arm has 7 degrees-of-freedom that makes the overall motion of the arm very complex so that, before you start driving the arm, you should be very familiar with all the position it can get.
~By Umberto Guidoni ~
The real American type can never be a ballet dancer. The legs are too long, the body too supple and the spirit too free for this school of affected grace and toe walking.
~By Isadora Duncan ~
We have confused the free with the free and easy.
~By Adlai E. Stevenson ~
It has been well said that a hungry man is more interested in four sandwiches than four freedoms.
~By Henry Cabot Lodge, Jr. ~
I have always been free with my love - it is my nature. I am easily captivated by men and they have always been attracted to me.
~By Christine Keeler ~
The amount of data and analysis available for free is a true example of information explosion has leveled the playing field for individual investors.
~By Maria Bartiromo ~
Whatever your image is, it's probably not you, but it affords you the freedom to live up to it.
~By Macy Gray ~
Sir, there is no Christian nation, thus free to choose as we are, which would establish slavery.
~By William H. Seward ~
The most important kind of freedom is to be what you really are. You trade in your reality for a role. You give up your ability to feel, and in exchange, put on a mask.
~By Jim Morrison ~
Households, cities, countries, and nations have enjoyed great happiness when a single individual has taken heed of the Good and Beautiful. Such people not only liberate themselves; they fill those they meet with a free mind.
~By Philo ~
The veterans of our military services have put their lives on the line to protect the freedoms that we enjoy. They have dedicated their lives to their country and deserve to be recognized for their commitment.
~By Judd Gregg ~
We should have a State in which we could live and breathe as free men and which we could develop according to our own lights and culture and where principles of Islamic social justice could find free play.
~By Muhammad Ali Jinnah ~
Value your freedom or you will lose it, teaches history. 'Don't bother us with politics', respond those who don't want to learn.
~By Richard Stallman ~
I will not become a Napoleon nor an Alexander, and labour for my own ambition; but I will labour for freedom and for the moral well-being of man.
~By Lajos Kossuth ~
I will begin with this confession: whatever I have done in the course of my life, whether it be good or evil, has been done freely; I am a free agent.
~By Giacomo Casanova ~
I believe there should be no arbitrary date set for withdrawal and yet no permanent, unending deployment. No cut and run, yet measured progress in helping a people who want to be free without an illusion of overnight success.
~By Rick Renzi ~
The most all penetrating spirit before which will open the possibility of tilting not tables, but planets, is the spirit of free human inquiry. Believe only in that.
~By Dmitri Mendeleev ~
Human rights commissions, as they are evolving, are an attack on our fundamental freedoms and the basic existence of a democratic society... It is in fact totalitarianism. I find this is very scary stuff.
~By Stephen Harper ~
And the whole world, the whole world that believes in freedom, whether you're talking about personal freedom, economic freedom, religious freedom, they look to the United States for leadership; and you're part of that leadership.
~By Don Nickles ~
I think operating systems work best if they're free and open. Particular applications are more likely to be proprietary.
~By Larry Wall ~
It's almost worth having been in the army for the joy your freedom gives you.
~By John Dos Passos ~
If a nation expects to be ignorant and free, in a state of civilization, it expects what never was and never will be.
~By Thomas Jefferson ~
I wish to lead a life free from care, and I see that I shall be unhappy if I cannot always work at my art.
~By Clara Schumann ~
I keep telling myself to calm down, to take less of an interest in things and not to get so excited, but I still care a lot about liberty, freedom of speech and expression, and fairness in journalism.
~By Kate Adie ~
Unemployment insurance is a pre-paid vacation for freeloaders.
~By Ronald Reagan ~
The free, independent spirit who commits himself to no dogma and will not decide in favor of any party has no homestead on earth.
~By Stefan Zweig ~
Emmy Lou Harris introduced me to the work of the Vietnam Veterans of America foundation and the Campaign for a Land Mine Free World.
~By Mary Chapin Carpenter ~
Most of the time when I receive a script, it says something like 'Rosenberg is the fat, slovenly Mayor, who doesn't want the kids to use the skateboard park', or 'Stein is a pompous, rotund attorney, imposing to all.' It would be so freeing to get a script where my character is simply described as 'A Man'.
~By Fred Melamed ~
There is no bigotry like that of "free thought" run to seed.
~By Horace Greeley ~
I'm interested in how artists and writers do this, using art as therapy. Escaping into the worlds we create. We're all victims and few of us are truly free.
~By David Lloyd ~
Good ideas are a dime a dozen, bad ones are free.
~By Douglas Horton ~
Many Americans don't have an understanding of the freedoms they regularly enjoy.
~By Dave Anderson ~
Bahrain 's margin of freedom is growing day after day as we head into the future with steady steps.
~By Hamad bin Isla Al Khalifi ~
Tragically, the effort to make America and the world safer and to defend freedom around the world is not without an enormous cost to this Nation in terms primarily of lost lives and those who bear the scars and the wounds of war, and their families who must bear these losses.
~By John Warner ~
Like other important immigrant communities, the Jewish experience in the United States represents the ideal of freedom and the promise and opportunity of America.
~By Jan Schakowsky ~
The only place you see a free market is in the speeches of politicians.
~By Dwayne Andreas ~
The oppressed never free themselves - they do not have the necessary strengths.
~By Clare Boothe Luce ~
I am really only interested in new information, not freelance opinion. I don't really care what you think off the top of your head.
~By Tucker Carlson ~
The pursuit of truth will set you free; even if you never catch up with it.
~By Clarence Darrow ~
Nearly 100,000 sex offenders remain unregistered, and are moving freely about the country; the risk that they may strike again grows every day.
~By Bob Ney ~
As we continue to fight the war on terror, we express our gratitude to our troops whose valor over the last three years provided freedom to the Iraqis, while protecting our liberty here at home.
~By Tim Murphy ~
I liked it because it was such a dangerous script and showed just what human beings are capable of. Here was a movie in which Morgan Freeman and Brad Pitt, who always win in every movie they ever do, simply don't win. I felt that was outrageous for a commercial movie.
~By Kevin Spacey ~
I never lost a freestyle race. Never. Not even in the YMCA.
~By Johnny Weissmuller ~
Free the child's potential, and you will transform him into the world.
~By Maria Montessori ~
People are free to campaign and they will be free to vote. There won't be any soldiers, you know, at the queues. Anyone who has the right to vote is free to go and cast his vote anywhere in his own area, in his own constituency.
~By Robert Mugabe ~
Novelists have always had complete freedom to pretty much tell their story any way they saw fit. And that's what I'm trying to do.
~By Quentin Tarantino ~
Life is like a game of cards. The hand you are dealt is determinism; the way you play it is free will.
~By Jawaharlal Nehru ~
No other game combines the wonder of nature with the discipline of sport in such carefully planned ways. A great golf course both frees and challenges a golfer's mind.
~By Tom Watson ~
We Chileans have to be able to understand that in a democracy institutions must function freely and with sovereignty.
~By Ricardo Lagos ~
Loving someone is setting them free, letting them go.
~By Kate Winslet ~
The other classes of which society was composed were, first, freemen, owners of small portions of land, independent, though they sometimes voluntarily became the vassals of their more opulent neighbors, whose power was necessary for their protection.
~By Thomas Bulfinch ~
As freely as the firmament embraces the world, or the sun pours forth impartially his beams, so mercy must encircle both friend and foe.
~By Friedrich Schiller ~
Mars, when guilty of homicide, and set free from the charge of murder by the Athenians through favour, lest he should appear to be too fierce and savage, committed adultery with Venus.
~By Lactantius ~
If the right to privacy means anything, it is the right of the individual, married or single, to be free from unwarranted governmental intrusion.
~By William J. Brennan ~
There can be no real freedom without the freedom to fail.
~By Erich Fromm ~
The average European does not seem to feel free until he succeeds in enslaving and oppressing others.
~By Bernard Berenson ~
The threat to free television. The reason television is free is because it is a life support system for commercials. That fundamental aspect is about to change.
~By Dick Wolf ~
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.
~By Friedrich August von Hayek ~
Free speech is the whole thing, the whole ball game. Free speech is life itself.
~By Salman Rushdie ~
The Vietnamese people deeply love independence, freedom and peace. But in the face of United States aggression they have risen up, united as one man.
~By Ho Chi Minh ~
That foreign trade should be fair rather than free.
~By Lyn Nofziger ~
I have an intense dislike for artificial society. In France, one could lead a free life - to do what one wanted to do without interference or criticism from one's neighbors.
~By Robert W. Service ~
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.
~By Noah Webster ~
No freeman shall be debarred the use of arms.
~By Thomas Jefferson ~
Freedom granted only when it is known beforehand that its effects will be beneficial is not freedom.
~By Friedrich August von Hayek ~
The transfer is a monumental occasion as the Iraqi people take control of their government and their future and forge ahead with creating a society governed by the tenets of life, liberty and freedom.
~By Jim Gerlach ~
Whatever the immediate gains and losses, the dangers to our safety arising from political suppression are always greater than the dangers to the safety resulting from political freedom. Suppression is always foolish. Freedom is always wise.
~By Alexander Meiklejohn ~
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.
~By Peter Fraser ~
In America, through pressure of conformity, there is freedom of choice, but nothing to choose from.
~By Peter Ustinov ~
We asked the workers to give up 25 percent of their salaries. Imagine! We asked the industrialists to freeze all costs, no matter what the inflation is.
~By Shimon Peres ~
Nothing ain't worth nothing but it's free.
~By Kris Kristofferson ~
Deficits. Most people of knowledge say it's the biggest single problem facing the economic free world.
~By David Hartman ~
Being big and famous doesn't get you more freedom, it gets you less.
~By Robert Wyatt ~
He who is brave is free.
~By Lucius Annaeus Seneca ~
Some people regard discipline as a chore. For me, it is a kind of order that sets me free to fly.
~By Julie Andrews ~
Political Freedom without economic equality is a pretense, a fraud, a lie; and the workers want no lying.
~By Mikhail Bakunin ~
Not to get overly psychological about this, but it's probably why I became an actress in the first place: for that kind of freedom and refuge, as well as for the fact that I just love acting so much.
~By Marisa Tomei ~
That feeling of freedom, open highways of possibilities, has kind of been lost to materialism and marketing.
~By Sheryl Crow ~
Be convinced that to be happy means to be free and that to be free means to be brave. Therefore do not take lightly the perils of war.
~By Thucydides ~
Fear is not in the habit of speaking truth; when perfect sincerity is expected, perfect freedom must be allowed; nor has anyone who is apt to be angry when he hears the truth any cause to wonder that he does not hear it.
~By Tacitus ~
We cling nervously to the melody, but we don't handle it freely, we don't really make anything new out of it, we merely overload it.
~By Johannes Brahms ~
We know the road to freedom has always been stalked by death.
~By Angela Davis ~
None but ourselves can free our minds.
~By Bob Marley ~
You have freedom when you're easy in your harness.
~By Robert Frost ~
I refer to calls for humanitarian intervention in the affairs of another state - a new idea, this - even when they are made under the pretext of defending human rights and freedoms.
~By Boris Yeltsin ~
We call our country home of the brave and land of the free, but it's not. We give a false portrayal of freedom. We're not free - if we were, we'd allow people their freedom.
~By Jesse Ventura ~
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