Quotes about free

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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

Freedom is more than just a patriotic concept it is the purest intent of our design. Be you. Be free. Be nice.

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

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

Academic freedom and free speech mean the right to consider ideas with which you might disagree.

The idea that men are created free and equal is both true and misleading: men are created different they lose their social freedom and their individual autonomy in seeking to become like each other.

Freedom - to walk free and own no superior.

The Ego is partly free. partly determined, and reaches fuller freedom by approaching the Individual who is most free: God.

The challenge as we saw in the Nigerian project was to restructure the economy decisively in the direction of a modern free market as an appropriate environment for cultivation of freedom and democracy and the natural emergence of a new social order.

I was a pilot and flying hang gliders, paragliders, aerobatics airplanes, and then I discovered skydiving. Free fall. Free. With nothing around you, just a parachute on your back. And you go down. But you don't feel like you're going down. Total freedom.

In all my life, I have never been free. I have never been able to do anything with freedom, except in the field of my writing.

There is something about boldness and fearlessness and being free enough to speak what is on one's mind that warrants freedom.

None are more hopelessly enslaved than those who falsely believe they are free.

Freedom has never been free.

A hungry man is not a free man.

That's free enterprise, friends: freedom to gamble, freedom to lose. And the great thing - the truly democratic thing about it - is that you don't even have to be a player to lose.

None who have always been free can understand the terrible fascinating power of the hope of freedom to those who are not free.

From the U.S. Capitol Building to the White House, our national symbols that represent freedom to so many of us, were built by people who were anything but free.

Free men are the strongest men.

There are two freedoms - the false, where a man is free to do what he likes; the true, where he is free to do what he ought.

Free speech carries with it some freedom to listen.

Ruby inherited the Perl philosophy of having more than one way to do the same thing. I inherited that philosophy from Larry Wall, who is my hero actually. I want to make Ruby users free. I want to give them the freedom to choose.

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

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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

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.

I only ask to be free. The butterflies are free.

I want to be intentional about my freedom - in choosing it, honoring it, and protecting it. One of the best feelings I know is feeling truly free.

One of the unsung freedoms that go with a free press is the freedom not to read it.

It serves notice that President Bush is serious about promoting freedom, because free societies are a lot more peaceable than dictatorships and monarchies.

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

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

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

Man is free at the moment he wishes to be.

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

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

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

A society that chooses between capitalism and socialism does not choose between two social systems it chooses between social cooperation and the disintegration of society.

The instinct of nearly all societies is to lock up anybody who is truly free. First, society begins by trying to beat you up. If this fails, they try to poison you. If this fails too, the finish by loading honors on your head.

We can't just have mainstream behavior on television in a free society, we have to make sure we see the whole panorama of human behavior.

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.

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.

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.

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.

I'm not alone, I'm free. I no longer have to be a credit, I don't have to be a symbol to anybody; I don't have to be a first to anybody.

No one needs to tell me about the importance of the free press in a democratic society or about the essential role a newspaper can play in its community.

Over the past several decades, a growing number of investors have been choosing to put their money in funds that screen companies for their environmental and labor records. Some socially responsible investors are starting to add free expression and privacy to their list of criteria.

Sustainability goes across everything I do with Adidas and everything I do with my own house, so the Olympic kit is no exception. It is incredibly environmental in the way that it is manufactured. For example, there's no leather; it's free from PVC. There's lots of woven materials, which means a lot less waste.

Free speech has been used by the Supreme Court to give immense power to the wealthiest members of our society.

If society will not admit of woman's free development, then society must be remodeled.

The very word 'secrecy' is repugnant in a free and open society; and we are as a people inherently and historically opposed to secret societies, to secret oaths, and to secret proceedings.

Two things form the bedrock of any open society - freedom of expression and rule of law. If you don't have those things, you don't have a free country.

If a free society cannot help the many who are poor, it cannot save the few who are rich.

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.

The first principle of a free society is an untrammeled flow of words in an open forum.

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.

If you get stuck, draw with a different pen. Change your tools; it may free your thinking.

There was something undifferentiated and yet complete, which existed before Heaven and Earth. Soundless and formless, it depends on nothing and does not change. It operates everywhere and is free from danger. It may be considered the mother of the universe. I do not know its name; I call it Tao.

Only free men can negotiate. A prisoner cannot enter into contracts.

You know that being an American is more than a matter of where your parents came from. It is a belief that all men are created free and equal and that everyone deserves an even break.

Men may die, but the fabrics of free institutions remains unshaken.

Man is not the creature of circumstances, circumstances are the creatures of men. We are free agents, and man is more powerful than matter.

The truth is found when men are free to pursue it.

Smile, it's free therapy.

To be free is to have achieved your life.

Life is like a game of cards. The hand you are dealt is determinism the way you play it is free will.

The concept of romantic love affords a means of emotional manipulation which the male is free to exploit, since love is the only circumstance in which the female is (ideologically) pardoned for sexual activity.

The gospel sets us free to become the romantic leaders of our marriages without fright or hesitation. Because we have been forever wooed by Jesus, we are now free to forever woo our wives.

I think if a poet wanted to lead, he or she would want the message to be unequivocally clear and free of ambiguity. Whereas poetry is actually the home of ambiguity, ambivalence and uncertainty.

With a poetry book I can send 100 copies out to reviewers and other people, and even do it in advance and get their response. It's difficult with iPad: how do you send it out for free, and how do you even disseminate it before it goes into their store?

Modernism in other arts brought extreme difficulty. In poetry, the characteristic difficulty imported under the name of modernism was obscurity. But obscurity could just as easily be a quality of metrical as of free verse.

If a poem is not memorable, there's probably something wrong. One of the problems of free verse is that much of the free verse poetry is not memorable.

The voice is raised, and that is where poetry begins. And even today, in the prolonged aftermath of modernism, in places where 'open form' or free verse is the orthodoxy, you will find a memory of that raising of the voice in the term 'heightened speech.'

This will remain the land of the free only so long as it is the home of the brave.

Home life ceases to be free and beautiful as soon as it is founded on borrowing and debt.

Others indeed may talk, and write, and fight about liberty, and make an outward pretence to it; but the free-thinker alone is truly free.