With nearly 20 days until Iraq emerges as a free sovereign state for the first time in more than three decades, terrorists have increasingly targeted our country's infrastructure.
~By Iyad Allawi ~
That profound night freedom was agreeable and exciting.
~By Carmen Laforet ~
Free love sounds great.
~By Laura Prepon ~
There may be a hundred thousand men in an army, who are all equally free; but they only are naturally most fit to be commanders or leaders, who most excel in the virtues required for the right performance of those offices.
~By Algernon Sydney ~
You want 21 percent risk free? Pay off your credit cards.
~By Andrew Tobias ~
Free speech carries with it some freedom to listen.
~By Warren E. Burger ~
Roosevelt talked not only about Freedom from Fear, but also Freedom from Want.
~By Jeffrey Sachs ~
The doctrine that all men are, in any sense, or have been, at any time, free and equal, is an utterly baseless fiction.
~By Thomas Huxley ~
Freedom and opportunity are precious gifts and the purpose of our politics is to expand them, for all our people.
~By Ed Miliband ~
There is a crying need today to have this truth heralded throughout the land that youth especially may appreciate and hold the freedom of the individual as sacred as did our revolutionary fathers.
~By David O. McKay ~
In times such as these, people should recognize that evil knows no borders, knows no limits and knows no compassion. Those around the globe that value freedom must continue to persevere even in the darkest of times.
~By Michael Burgess ~
Prosperity or egalitarianism - you have to choose. I favor freedom - you never achieve real equality anyway: you simply sacrifice prosperity for an illusion.
~By Mario Vargas Llosa ~
I am a technological activist. I have a political agenda. I am in favor of basic human rights: to free speech, to use any information and technology, to purchase and use recreational drugs, to enjoy and purchase so-called 'vices', to be free of intruders, and to privacy.
~By Bram Cohen ~
The mind, in proportion as it is cut off from free communication with nature, with revelation, with God, with itself, loses its life, just as the body droops when debarred from the air and the cheering light from heaven.
~By William Ellery Channing ~
The terrorists know what is at stake, which is why they are pulling out all the stops to derail our efforts. They understand that a free and democratic Iraq is a serious blow to their interests.
~By Elizabeth Dole ~
I felt extremely uncomfortable as the focal point, in the spotlight. I really like the behind the scenes role, because all my freedom is there.
~By Brian Eno ~
Yes, you must have the courage of being free.
~By Jose Carreras ~
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.
~By Hugo Black ~
The right to be let alone is indeed the beginning of all freedoms.
~By William O. Douglas ~
Make your free men and guests sit as far as possible at tables on either side, not four here and three there.
~By Robert Grosseteste ~
A lot of people out there pay good lip service to the idea of personal freedom... right up to the point that someone tries to do something that they don't personally approve of.
~By Neal Boortz ~
These fallen heroes represent the character of a nation who has a long history of patriotism and honor - and a nation who has fought many battles to keep our country free from threats of terror.
~By Michael N. Castle ~
Back a hundred years ago, especially around Woodrow Wilson, what happened in this country is we took freedom and we chopped it into pieces.
~By Ron Paul ~
We need to consider nominations as thoroughly and carefully as the American people deserve. No one is entitled to a free pass to a lifetime appointment to the Supreme Court.
~By Patrick Leahy ~
I like to be a free spirit. Some don't like that, but that's the way I am.
~By Princess Diana ~
As free citizens in a political democracy, we have a responsibility to be interested and involved in the affairs of the human community, be it at the local or the global level.
~By Paul Wellstone ~
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 ~
I can remember when Democrats believed that it was the duty of America to fight for freedom over tyranny.
~By Zell Miller ~
According to the Gorean way of looking at things a taste of the slave ring is thought to be occasionally beneficial to all women, even the exalted free woman.
~By John Norman ~
With one man, there was a freedom and liberation. That was with Michael Hutchence, my partner in life.
~By Kylie Minogue ~
Neither the wording of the amendment itself nor common practice challenged the widely held belief that government guaranteed freedom of religion, not freedom from religion.
~By Linda Chavez ~
The interpretation of our reality through patterns not our own, serves only to make us ever more unknown, ever less free, ever more solitary.
~By Gabriel Garcia Marquez ~
The moon and other celestial bodies should be free for exploration and use by all countries. No country should be permitted to advance a claim of sovereignty.
~By Lyndon B. Johnson ~
Distance does not decide who is your brother and who is not. The church is going to have to become the conscience of the free market if it's to have any meaning in this world - and stop being its apologist.
~By Bono ~
I had crossed the line. I was free; but there was no one to welcome me to the land of freedom. I was a stranger in a strange land.
~By Harriet Tubman ~
I have achieved an inner freedom.
~By Dmitri Mendeleev ~
In our excessive involvement in the affairs of other countries, we are not only living off our assets and denying our own people the proper enjoyment of their resources; we are also denying the world the example of a free society enjoying its freedom to the fullest.
~By J. William Fulbright ~
It requires greater courage to preserve inner freedom, to move on in one's inward journey into new realms, than to stand defiantly for outer freedom. It is often easier to play the martyr, as it is to be rash in battle.
~By Rollo May ~
Pursuing your passion is fulfilling and leads to financial freedom.
~By Robert G. Allen ~
Knowledge is that possession that no misfortune can destroy, no authority can revoke, and no enemy can control. This makes knowledge the greatest of all freedoms.
~By Bryant H. McGill ~
For starters, this country embodies something utterly unique: History's first democratic empire. Beginning in the post war era, we have used free trade and democracy to create a series of interlocking relationships that end war.
~By Armstrong Williams ~
The terrorist attacks upon our country changed the way that we live forever and provided us with a cruel reminder that freedom and liberty have a price.
~By Jo Ann Davis ~
The main thing I believe in is freedom.
~By Charles Evers ~
I've sold my soul for freedom. It's lonely but it's sweet.
~By Melissa Etheridge ~
The only thing that's going to free Huey is gun powder.
~By H. Rap Brown ~
I think there's great potential for autonomy, but we have to remember that we live in a world where people may have free will but have not invented their circumstances.
~By Thomas Frank ~
I am free of all prejudices. I hate every one equally.
~By W. C. Fields ~
For in this century, within the next decades, will be decided for generations whether all mankind is to become Communist, whether the whole world is to become free, or whether, in the struggle, civilization as we know it is to be completely destroyed or completely changed.
~By Whittaker Chambers ~
The men and women who serve in our military have won for us every hour we live in freedom, sometimes at the expense of the very hours of the lifetimes they had hoped to live.
~By Bob Riley ~
We breathed the air of freedom without knowing the language or any person.
~By Nelly Sachs ~
I should like to be remembered as the man who raised a voice against... placing limitations on the freedom of the individual.
~By Dennis Chavez ~
Corrupted freemen are the worst of slaves.
~By David Garrick ~
The Reformers, therefore, as instruments in the hands of God, in delivering the Church from bondage to prelates, did not make it a tumultuous multitude, in which every man was a law to himself, free to believe, and free to do what he pleased.
~By Charles Hodge ~
I feel very free and very happy to be a composer.
~By Esa-Pekka Salonen ~
By helping readers understand these mechanics, I hope they will appreciate why freedom is for everyone, why it is essential for our security and why the free world plays a critically important role in advancing democracy around the globe.
~By Natan Sharansky ~
If this liberal potential is properly channeled, we may expect the area of freedom of the United States to increase. The problem is to spend up our rate of social invention in the service of the welfare of all the people.
~By Henry A. Wallace ~
On those, I've said it before, I work free. It's the waiting they pay me for.
~By Hector Elizondo ~
Let us be sure that those who come after will say of us in our time, that in our time we did everything that could be done. We finished the race; we kept them free; we kept the faith.
~By Ronald Reagan ~
We need the children of Indonesia and the Philippines to manufacture our freedom of choice.
~By Marc Maron ~
None are more hopelessly enslaved than those who falsely believe they are free.
~By Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ~
More time on paperwork means less time spent with students or preparing lessons for students. It is as simple as that. The numerous reforms in the bill will go a long way to free our time of special educators.
~By Christopher Bond ~
Our engineering departments build freeways which destroy a city or a landscape, in the process.
~By Arthur Erickson ~
I was sort of open to do anything, I was free.
~By Marc Newson ~
Democracy is constructed like an edifice, freedom by freedom, right by right, until it reaches its snapping point.
~By Abdoulaye Wade ~
The time of illusion, then, is the beautiful moment of passion; it represents the artistic zone in which the poet or romance writer ought to be free to do the very best that he can.
~By Lafcadio Hearn ~
All people hope Islam helps everything in life. Islam will make jobs. Islam will make freedom. Islam will make everything.
~By Ahmed Ali ~
If society fits you comfortably enough, you call it freedom.
~By Robert Frost ~
A free culture is not a culture without property; it is not a culture in which artists don't get paid.
~By Lawrence Lessig ~
I think it's like music for the sake of music, and a lot of the words stem from liking music a lot, wanting to be a good band and having a good sense of humour, and living in a situation where we're free to pretty much do what we want.
~By Jon Fishman ~
Friends can help each other. A true friend is someone who lets you have total freedom to be yourself - and especially to feel. Or, not feel. Whatever you happen to be feeling at the moment is fine with them. That's what real love amounts to - letting a person be what he really is.
~By Jim Morrison ~
It is difficult to free fools from the chains they revere.
~By Voltaire ~
When people say 'What are underground comics?' I think the best way you can define them is just the absolute freedom involved... we didn't have anyone standing over us.
~By Robert Crumb ~
Why should the Negroes ever fight against the only nations of the world where racial discrimination is prohibited, and where the people can live freely? Never! I can assure you, they will never fight against either the Soviet Union or the peoples' democracies.
~By Paul Robeson ~
I say there is not more happiness for me than the freedom of my Homeland.
~By Islom Karimov ~
They won't break me because the desire for freedom, and the freedom of the Irish people, is in my heart. The day will dawn when all the people of Ireland will have the desire for freedom to show. It is then that we will see the rising of the moon.
~By Bobby Sands ~
I'm all in favour of free expression provided it's kept rigidly under control.
~By Alan Bennett ~
The progress of freedom depends more upon the maintenance of peace, the spread of commerce, and the diffusion of education, than upon the labors of cabinets and foreign offices.
~By Richard Cobden ~
Any one who wants to live in peace and freedom will be to live by toil, demonstration of high levels of discipline and tolerance for one another.
~By Yahya Jammeh ~
Curiosity is free-wheeling intelligence.
~By Alistair Cooke ~
Today, our brave military men and women, just as those who have gone before them, stand on alert, securing freedom at home and guarding the innocent abroad.
~By Conrad Burns ~
I've been into the habit of freezing white grapes and using them as a snack. Instead of eating peanuts or popcorn or something like that or pretzels, I just eat the white grapes.
~By Mike Ditka ~
Freedom is a lonely battle, but if the United States doesn't lead it - sometimes imperfectly, but mostly with honor - who will?
~By Cal Thomas ~
The goal is to give people a free encyclopedia to every person in the world, in their own language. Not just in a 'free beer' kind of way, but also in the free speech kind of way.
~By Jimmy Wales ~
People go back to the stuff that doesn't cost a lot of money and the stuff that you don't have to hand money to over and over again. Stuff that you get for free, stuff that your older brother gives you, stuff that you can get out of the local library.
~By Frank Black ~
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 ~
At my lemonade stand I used to give the first glass away free and charge five dollars for the second glass. The refill contained the antidote.
~By Emo Philips ~
As a boy, I believed freedom for America meant freedom for me. There was a time I believed every word spoken.
~By Barry White ~
America has never seen itself as a national state like all others, but rather as an experiment in human freedom and democracy.
~By Brent Scowcroft ~
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 ~
I've returned to being an amateur without any ties or strings attached, which gives me a freedom I never had before.
~By Cat Stevens ~
If it's free, it's advice; if you pay for it, it's counseling; if you can use either one, it's a miracle.
~By Jack Adams ~
Freedom of conscience entails more dangers than authority and despotism.
~By Michel Foucault ~
For in the end, freedom is a personal and lonely battle; and one faces down fears of today so that those of tomorrow might be engaged.
~By Alice Walker ~
Perfect freedom is as necessary to the health and vigor of commerce as it is to the health and vigor of citizenship.
~By Patrick Henry ~
But I can tell you what your folly and injustice will compel us to do. It will compel us to be free from your domination, and more self-reliant than we have been.
~By John H. Reagan ~
So, I'm lying on the couch and Laura walks in and I say, 'Free at last,' and she says 'You're free all right, you're free to do the dishes.' So I say, 'You're talking to the former president, baby,' and she said, 'consider this your new domestic policy agenda.'
~By George W. Bush ~
You have the highest of human trusts committed to your care. Providence has showered on this favored land blessings without number, and has chosen you as the guardians of freedom, to preserve it for the benefit of the human race.
~By J. Reuben Clark ~
But in the first Gulf war the United Kingdom was not under any threat from Iraq, and is still less so in the second one. Then there is no justification for obstructing freedom of information, particularly as nations have a right to know what their soldiers are being used for.
~By Kate Adie ~
Films take up so much time, and with theatre, you do have to plan a period of time that you can be free.
~By Mike Figgis ~
I try to give the media as many confusing images as I can to retain my freedom. What's real is for my children and the people I live with.
~By Sting ~
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