Often I have thought of the day when I gazed for the first time at the sea.
The sea is vast, the sea is wide, my eyes roved far and wide and longed to be
free. But there was the horizon. Why a horizon, when I wanted the infinite
from life?

Our land, the first garden of liberty’s tree – It has been, and shall be, the land of the free

We are free, we are civilised, to little purpose, if we grudge to any portion of the human race an equal measure of freedom and civilisation.

A man has free choice to the extent that he is rational

Those who are to conduct a war cannot in the nature of things, be proper or safe judges, whether a war ought to be commenced, continued, or concluded. Thy are barred from the latter functions by a great principle in free government, analogous to that which separates the sword from the purse, or the power of executing from the power of enacting laws.

A man has a property in his opinions and the free communication of them.

The right of freely examining public characters and measures, and of free communication among the people thereon… has ever been justly deemed the only effectual guardian of every other right.

He had done this thing before, somewhere in that other and dimly remembered world, and he was doing it again, now, running free in the open, the unpacked earth underfoot, the wide sky overhead.

We can’t be free until we can tell our story, and only by telling it convincingly can we each do our bit to help the world grow up.

We must imitate Christ’s life and his ways if we are to be truly enlightened and set free from the darkness of our own hearts. Let it be the most important thing we do, then, to reflect on the life of Jesus Christ

I’m being driven crazy by people who are obsessed with limiting the scope of government, but feel perfectly free to demand that government get involved in women’s most personal choices.

As an academic, I value the free exchange of ideas.

Each time I free a child, I feel it is something closer to God.

I’m not willing to risk more terrorist plots succeeding and more paedophiles going free

You want everything to go right. You’ve just got to let yourself be free and have good energy

All statements are true, if you are free to redefine their terms

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

It is amazing how many people act as if the right to free speech includes the right to be free of criticism for what you say – which means that other people should not have the same right to free speech that they claim for themselve

American prosperity and American free enterprise are both highly unusual in the world, and we should not overlook the possibility that the two are connected

Lunches don’t get free just because you don’t see the prices on the menu. And economists don’t get popular by reminding people of that

No country can be called free which is governed by an absolute power; and it matters not whether it be an absolute royal power or an absolute legislative power, as the consequences will be the same to the people

If the present generation, or any other, are disposed to be slaves, it does not lessen the right of the succeeding generation to be free: wrongs cannot have a legal descent

We fight not to enslave, but to set a country free, and to make room upon the earth for honest men to live in

Every age and generation must be as free to act for itself in all cases as the ages and generations which preceded it. The vanity and presumption of governing beyond the grave is the most ridiculous and insolent of all tyrannies.

The only thing that’s going to free Huey is gun powder.

See, it’s no in between: you’re either free or you’re a slave.

Even in the United States and in other free nations, some journalists, academics, public officials, and saddest of all young people have developed and promulgated idealized, warped views of tyrannical regimes.

To Serve the God of Love one must be free, one must face the terrible responsibility of the decision to love in spite of all unworthiness whether in oneself or in one’s neighbor

Love is free; it does not depend on the desirability of its object, but loves for love’s sake.

Giving every man a vote has no more made men wise and free than Christianity has made them good.

The average man does not want to be free. he simply wants to be safe.

Contemplative living is living in true relationship with oneself, God, others and nature, free of the illusions of separateness.

The main engagement of the writer is towards truthfulness; therefore he must keep his mind and his judgment free.

No people who are ignorant can be truly free

Women should have free access to every field of labor which they care to enter, and when their work is as valuable as that of a man it should be paid as highly.

If a nation expects to be ignorant and free, in a state of civilization, it expects what never was and never will be.

You must love in such a way that the person you love feels free

We will always remember. We will always be proud. We will always be prepared, so we will always be free.

In such situations, of course, people don’t nurse their anger silently, they moan aloud; but these are not frank, straightforward moans, there is a kind of cunning malice in them, and that’s the whole point. Those very moans express the sufferer’s delectation; if he did not enjoy his moans, he wouldn’t be moaning.

Today as always, men fall into two groups: slaves and free men. Whoever does not have two-thirds of his day for himself, is a slave, whatever he may be: a statesman, a businessman, an official, or a scholar.

But I have to be sure

When I walk out that door

Oh how I want to be free

I am free and that is why I am lost.

Take a method and try it. If it fails, admit it frankly, and try another. But by all means, try something

Human kindness has never weakened the stamina or softened the fiber of a free people. A nation does not have to be cruel to be tough

We pretend to be a free society, and we pretend to be an adult society, but if you look at the facts, our news is just as contrived, and controlled as Pravda

Is freedom anything else than the power of living as we choose? Nothing else. Tell me then, you men, do you wish to live in error? We do not. No one who lives in error is free. Do you wish to live in fear? Do you wish to live in sorrow? Do you wish to live in tension? By no means. No one who is in a state of fear or sorrow or tension is free, but whoever is delivered from sorrows or fears or anxieties, he is at the same time also delivered from servitude.

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.

A man who causes fear cannot be free from fear.

No person is free who is not master of himself.

Whoever then would be free, let him wish for nothing, let him decline nothing, which depends on others; else he must necessarily be a slave.

A free life cannot acquire many possessions, because this is not easy to do without servility to mobs or monarchs.

The only free mind is one that, pure of all intimacy with beings or objects, plies its own vacuity.

No man is free until he s a master of himself!!

You may fetter my leg, but Zeus himself cannot get the better of my free will.

We must not believe the many, who say that only free people ought to be educated, but we should rather believe the philosophers who say that only the educated are free.

No man is free who is not master of himself.

Only the educated are free.

There is no more wild, free, vigorous growth of the forest, but everything is in pots or rows like a rococo garden… The pupil is in the age of spontaneous variation which at no period of life is so great. He does not want a standardized, overpeptonized mental diet. It palls on his appetite.

Morning exercise, walking in the free, invigorating air of heaven, or cultivating flowers, small fruits, and vegetables, is the surest safeguard against colds, coughs, congestion of the brain, inflammation of the liver, the kidneys, and the lungs, and a hundred other diseases.

If you’re taking shortcuts, you can’t be free.

My mind is always free. My mind is flexible.

I believe in calm, simple, low-profile life. You live simple, you train hard, and live an honest life. Then you are free.

If you’re taking shortcuts, you can’t be free.

Only the disciplined ones are free in life.

There ain’t no such thing as a free lunch.

If we command our wealth, we shall be rich and free. If our wealth commands us, we are poor indeed.

When I get dressed, it’s like freestyling

My free-kick secret? I just look at the net and say take the kick, Cristiano.

Perhaps only when human effort had done it’s best and failed, would God’s power alone be free to work.

Forgiveness is setting the prisoner free, only to find out that the prisoner was me.

Are you saying I can fly?” “I say you are free.

I am free of all prejudices. I hate every one equally.

It is within our competence to think and become bound, or to cease thinking and thus be free.

It is said that the truth will make you free. The truth alone will not. It must be combined with facts and other astute bargaining devices

I thought that a Jewish state would be free of the evils afflicting other societies: theft, murder, prostitution… But now we have them all. And that’s a thing that cuts to the heart.

The Indians are so free about the riches under their possession.

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Some books leave us free and some books make us free.

When people decide they want to be free, there is nothing that can stop them.

It [feminism] is mixed up with a muddled idea that women are free when they serve their employers but slaves when they help their husbands.

Now that she had nothing to lose, she was free.

Do not free a camel of the burden of his hump; you may be freeing him from being a camel.

If you love someone, you must be prepared to set them free.

Even the evil-looking bird perched on a rod in the bar had stopped screeching out the names and addresses of local contract killers, which was a service it provided for free.

Cut out the free feed for the boss hogs at the public trough and the spill-over they’ve been leaving us. We’ll manage.

Touch my children and I will eat your hands off your freakin arms.

Mankind is at its best when it is most free. This will be clear if we grasp the principle of liberty. We must recall that the basic principle is freedom of choice, which saying many have on their lips but few in their minds.

Conscience, that boon companion who sets a man free under the strong breastplate of innocence, that bids him on and fear not.

The way of life can be free and beautiful. But we have lost the way.

Is not the gospel its own sign and wonder? Is not this a miracle of miracles, that ‘God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in Him should not perish’? Surely that precious word, ‘Whosoever will, let him come and take the water of life freely’ and that solemn promise, ‘Him that cometh unto Me, I will in no wise cast out,’ are better than signs and wonders! A truthful Saviour ought to be believed. He is truth itself. Why will you ask proof of the veracity of One who cannot lie?

I only ask to be free, the butterflies are free.

I had noticed that both in the very poor and very rich extremes of society the mad were often allowed to mingle freely.

The free soul is rare, but you know it when you see it – basically because you feel good, very good, when you are near or with them.

A central lesson of science is that to understand complex issues (or even simple ones), we must try to free our minds of dogma and to guarantee the freedom to publish, to contradict, and to experiment. Arguments from authority are unacceptable.

A creative person has little power over his own life. He is not free. He is captive and driven by his daimon

The artist is not a person endowed with free will who seeks his own ends, but one who allows art to realize its purpose through him

Countries are well cultivated, not as they are fertile, but as they are free.

I used to worry a lot. I still worry a lot, but not about the things that I used to worry about because my younger self, I didn’t regret anything that I ever did… I was happy, and I was free, and I was living it up.

When women come up to me like I’m a freaking senator or I’m a doctor, it’s like damn, y’all like me? I look up to y’all

But being a feminist is real simple; it’s that a woman can do things the same as a man. Anything a man can do, I can do. I can finesse, I can hustle. We have the same freedom. I was top of the charts. I’m a woman and I did that. I do feel equal to a man

I was happy and I was free and I was living it up. I don’t regret that, because you know people, they try to make you feel like it was wrong that I used to show my boobs or like freaking walk around naked or strip and people would try to make me feel like I was wrong for doing that and then for a second, I would be like, ‘Why did I did that?’ And then I was like, ‘F*ck that!’ Because I had a good time

There’s no such thing as a free lunch.

There is no more expensive thing than a free gift.

No book is genuinely free from political bias.

He [Christ] died for me. He made His righteousness mine and made my sin His own; and if He made my sin His own, then I do not have it, and I am free.

I frankly confess that even if it were possible I should not wish to have free choice given to me, or to have anything left in my own hands by which I might strive for salvation.

Let the spiritual grow up through the common. Live content with small means; seek elegance rather than luxury, and refinement rather than fashion. Be worthy, not respectable, wealthy, not rich; study hard, think quietly, talk gently, act frankly; bear all cheerfully, do all bravely, await occasions, hurry never. In a word, let the spiritual, unbidden and unconscious, grow up through the common

Life was not a valuable gift, but death was. […] Death was man’s best friend; when man could endure life no longer, death came and set him free.

Love, friendship, laughter some of the best things in life really are free.

We like to be free like birds in a tree.

None but ourselves can free our minds.

To be free is better than to be unfree – always. Any politician who suggests the opposite should be treated as suspect.

When people are free to choose, they choose freedom.

No one is free, even the birds are chained to the sky.

Civilization is the process of setting man free from men.

He is free to evade reality, he is free to unfocus his mind and stumble blindly down any road he pleases, but not free to avoid the abyss he refuses to see.

One great thing about getting old is that you can get out of all sorts of social obligations just by saying you’re too tired.

I am not free while any woman is unfree, even when her shackles are very different from my own

I am not free while any woman is unfree, even when her shackles are very different from my own

I don’t have hobbies; hobbies cost money. Interests are quite free.

If a man does not love solitude, he will not love freedom; for it is only when he is alone that he is really free

Give a man a free hand and he’ll run it all over you.

Men never do good unless necessity drives them to it; but when they are free to choose and can do just as they please, confusion and disorder become rampant.

Don’t worry ’bout what people gon’ say. Girl, do what you want to

Be a free thinker and don’t accept everything you hear as truth. Be critical and evaluate what you believe in

I have tried in my way to be free.

The truth is I love being alive. And I love feeling free. So if I can’t have those things then I feel like a caged animal and I’d rather not be in a cage. I’d rather be dead. And it’s real simple. And I think it’s not that uncommon.

My name became known because I was, one might say accidentally the target of state repression and because so many people throughout the country and other parts of the world organized around the demand for my freedom

We know the road to freedom has always been stalked by death

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.

No borders, just horizons – only freedom

Nothing is more wonderful than the art of being free, but nothing is harder to learn how to use than freedom

Freedom is the by-product of economic surplus

To be free is not to have the power to do anything you want; to be free is to be able to make the right choice

Destiny waits alike for the free man as well as for him enslaved by another’s might

Our task must be to free ourselves by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature in its beauty.

Science can flourish only in an atmosphere of free speech.

I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination.

Man is always prey to his truths. Once he has admitted them, he cannot free himself from them

What’s free? Free is when nobody else could tell us what to be. Free is when the TV ain’t controllin’ what we see.

In politics, everybody is free to choose his friends and allies.

To be free from convention is not to spurn it but not to be deceived by it.

You are not free until your past has no effect on your future.

When we free ourselves from the constraints of ordinary goals and uninformed scoffers we will find ourselves roaring off the face of the earth

Freethinkers are those who are willing to use their minds without prejudice and without fearing to understand things that clash with their own customs, privileges, or beliefs.

I want my lyrics to resonate with people’s experiences

They say that this country is free, and they say that this country is equal, but it is not equal if it’s ‘sometimes’…We need change now. We demand actions now.

I take to the open road, healthy, free, the world before me.