Free
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?
Topics: Eye, Famous, Far, Feelings, Free, Horizon, Infinite, Life, Meaningful, Sea, Thoughts
Our land, the first garden of liberty’s tree – It has been, and shall be, the land of the free
Author: Thomas CampbellTopics: Experiences, Famous, Feelings, Free, Land, Liberty, Life, Meaningful
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.
Author: Thomas Babington MacaulayTopics: Famous, Feelings, Free, Freedom, Life, Meaningful, Portion, Purpose, Race
A man has free choice to the extent that he is rational
Author: Thomas AquinasTopics: Choice, Famous, Feelings, Free, Life, Meaningful, 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.
Author: James MadisonTopics: Famous, Free, Function, Government, Judges, Laws, Power, Principles, Safe, War
A man has a property in his opinions and the free communication of them.
Author: James MadisonTopics: Communication, Famous, Free, Man, Opinions, Property
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.
Author: James MadisonTopics: Character, Communication, Examining, Famous, Free, Government, Guardians, Measure, Public, Right, Right to voice
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.
Author: Jack LondonTopics: Earth, Free, Running, Somewhere, World
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.
Author: Gail GodwinTopics: Famous, Free, Grow up, Helping, Honesty, Story, World
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
Author: Thomas a KempisTopics: Darkness, Famous, Free, Heart, Imitate, Important, Inspirational, Life, Meaningful, Reflection
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.
Topics: Crazy, Demand, Famous, Free, Government, Limiting, Obsessed, People, Personal choiceAs an academic, I value the free exchange of ideas.
Author: Gad SaadTopics: Critical thinking, Exchange, Famous, Feelings, Free, Ideas, Knowledge Sharing, Value
Each time I free a child, I feel it is something closer to God.
Author: Kailash SatyarthiTopics: Child, Famous, Free, God, Time
I’m not willing to risk more terrorist plots succeeding and more paedophiles going free
Author: Theresa MayTopics: Famous, Feelings, Free, Meaningful, Succeeding, Willing
You want everything to go right. You’ve just got to let yourself be free and have good energy
Author: Theophilus LondonTopics: Energy, Famous, Feelings, Free, Life, Meaningful, People, Right
All statements are true, if you are free to redefine their terms
Author: Thomas SowellTopics: Famous, Free, Redefine, Statement, True
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
Author: Thomas SowellTopics: Famous, Feelings, Framework, Free, Immediate, Life, Meaningful, Moral, Path, Resistance, Sustain
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
Author: Thomas SowellTopics: Act, Criticism, Experiences, Famous, Free, Life, Meaningful, Right, Speech
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
Author: Thomas SowellTopics: Famous, Feelings, Free, Meaningful, Overlooks, Possibility, Prosperity, World
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
Author: Thomas SowellTopics: Famous, Free, Lunch, Meaningful, People, Price
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
Author: Thomas PaineTopics: Consequences, Country, Famous, Free, Legislative, Meaningful, People, Power, Royal
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
Author: Thomas PaineTopics: Disposed, Famous, Feelings, Free, Generation, Inspirational, Legal, Lessen, Meaningful, Present, Slaves, Succeeding, Wrong
We fight not to enslave, but to set a country free, and to make room upon the earth for honest men to live in
Author: Thomas PaineTopics: Country, Earth, Famous, Fight, Free, Honest, Life, Live, Meaningful, Positive, Room
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.
Author: Thomas PaineTopics: Age, Experiences, Famous, Free, Generation, Inspirational, Life, Meaningful, Vanity
The only thing that’s going to free Huey is gun powder.
Author: H. Rap BrownTopics: Famous, Free, Gun powder, Thing
See, it’s no in between: you’re either free or you’re a slave.
Author: H. Rap BrownTopics: Famous, Free, Option, Slave, Slavery
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.
Author: H. R. McMasterTopics: Famous, Free, Journalist, Nations, People, Regime, United States
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
Author: Thomas MertonTopics: Decision, Despite, Face, Famous, Feelings, Free, God, Life, Love, Meaningful, Neighbor, Responsibility, Serve, Terrible, Unworthiness
Love is free; it does not depend on the desirability of its object, but loves for love’s sake.
Author: Thomas MertonTopics: Depends, Famous, Feelings, Free, Life, Love, Meaningful, Object, Sake of Love
Giving every man a vote has no more made men wise and free than Christianity has made them good.
Author: H. L. MenckenTopics: Christianity, Democracy, Famous, Free, Vote, Wise
The average man does not want to be free. he simply wants to be safe.
Author: H. L. MenckenTopics: Famous, Free, Man, Philosophy, Political, Safe, Wanted
Contemplative living is living in true relationship with oneself, God, others and nature, free of the illusions of separateness.
Author: Thomas MertonTopics: Famous, Feelings, Free, God, Life, Living, Meaningful, Nature, Relationship, Separateness, True
The main engagement of the writer is towards truthfulness; therefore he must keep his mind and his judgment free.
Author: Gabrielle RoyTopics: Engagement, Famous, Free, Judgement
No people who are ignorant can be truly free
Author: Thomas JeffersonTopics: Critical thinking, Education, Empowerment, Famous, Feelings, Free, Ignorant, Independence, Inform, Meaningful, People, Truly, Understanding
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.
Author: Theodore Roosevelt
Topics: Care, Experiences, Famous, Feelings, Free, Inspirational, Labor, Male friends, Man, Meaningful, Value, Value of Preparation, Working hard
If a nation expects to be ignorant and free, in a state of civilization, it expects what never was and never will be.
Author: Thomas JeffersonTopics: Civilization, Expect, Expectation, Experiences, Famous, Feelings, Free, Ignorant, Informed, Knowledge, Meaningful, Nation, Never, Reality, Responsibility, State
You must love in such a way that the person you love feels free
Author: Thich Nhat HanhTopics: Famous, Feel, Feelings, Free, Freedom, Harmony, Life, Love, Meaningful, Nonjudgmental, Person, Positive, Respect, Support, Trust, Unconditional Love, Understanding
We will always remember. We will always be proud. We will always be prepared, so we will always be free.
Author: Ronald ReaganTopics: Free, Prepared, Proud, Remember
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.
Topics: Enjoy, Enjoyment, Express, Expression, Famous, Freaky, Free, Free-kick, Freely, Inspirational, Life, Meaningful, Moaning, Point, Points of view, Straightforward, Suffer, Suffering
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.
Topics: Free, Free of cost, Group, Growing, Himself, Official Language, State, Statements
But I have to be sure
When I walk out that door
Oh how I want to be free
Author: Freddie MercuryTopics: Doors, Famous, Feelings, Free, Free of cost, Inspirational, Lesson, Letting go, Life, Meaningful, Surer, Surest
I am free and that is why I am lost.
Topics: Famous, Free, Free of cost, Inspirational, Life, Lost, Lost opportunities, Lot, Meaningful
Take a method and try it. If it fails, admit it frankly, and try another. But by all means, try something
Author: Franklin D. RooseveltTopics: Famous, Free, Free of cost, Inspirational, Life, Meaningful, Something, Something for nothing, Trying
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
Author: Franklin D. RooseveltTopics: Famous, Free, Free of cost, Inspirational, Life, Meaningful, National, National Conversation, Weakened
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
Author: Frank ZappaTopics: Control, Fact, Factor, Famous, Free, Free of cost, Inspirational, Life, Meaningful, News, News attention, Pretend, Pretending, Societal Values, Society
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.
Author: EpictetusTopics: Choose, Deliver, Error, Famous, Fear, Free, Freedom, Inspirational, Life, Living, Meaningful, Power, Servitude, Sorrow
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.
Author: EpictetusTopics: Famous, Fear, Free, Golden, Inspirational, Life, Lord, Lying, Meaningful, Personal belief, Philosopher, Rich, Strong desire, Trouble
A man who causes fear cannot be free from fear.
Author: EpictetusTopics: Famous, Fear, Free, Inspirational, Life, Meaningful, People
No person is free who is not master of himself.
Author: EpictetusTopics: Famous, Free, Inspirational, Life, Master, Meaningful, Person
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.
Author: EpictetusTopics: Depends, Famous, Free, Inspirational, Life, Meaningful, Necessarily, Slave, Wish
A free life cannot acquire many possessions, because this is not easy to do without servility to mobs or monarchs.
Author: EpicurusTopics: Acquire, Famous, Free, Inspirational, Life, Meaningful, Possessions, Servility
The only free mind is one that, pure of all intimacy with beings or objects, plies its own vacuity.
Author: Emil CioranTopics: Free, Free of cost, Life Choices, Life Cycle, life lesson, Life Long Journey, Natural things, Nature, Nature of love, Object, Objective sources, Pure, Pure entertainment
No man is free until he s a master of himself!!
Author: EpictetusTopics: Famous, Free, Inspirational, Life, Master, Meaningful
You may fetter my leg, but Zeus himself cannot get the better of my free will.
Author: EpictetusTopics: Famous, fetters, Free, Inspirational, Life, Meaningful, 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.
Author: EpictetusTopics: Famous, Free, Inspirational, Life, Meaningful, Philosophers
No man is free who is not master of himself.
Author: EpictetusTopics: Famous, Free, Inspirational, Life, Man, Master, Meaningful, People
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.
Author: G. Stanley HallTopics: Children, Educations, Famous, forest, Free, Growth, Inspirational, Science, Wild
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.
Author: Ellen G. WhiteTopics: Cultivate, Diseases, Exercise, Famous, Flowers, Free, Heaven, Hundred, Inflammation, Inspirational, Kidney, Liver, Lungs, Meaningful, Morning, Safeguard, Vegetables, Walking
If you’re taking shortcuts, you can’t be free.
Author: Eliud KipchogeTopics: Famous, Free, Inspirational, Life, Meaningful, Shortcut
My mind is always free. My mind is flexible.
Author: Eliud KipchogeTopics: Famous, Free, Inspirational, Meaningful, Mind, Motivational
I believe in calm, simple, low-profile life. You live simple, you train hard, and live an honest life. Then you are free.
Author: Eliud KipchogeTopics: Calm, Famous, Free, Hard, Honest, Inspirational, Life, Meaningful, Motivational, Simple, Train
If you’re taking shortcuts, you can’t be free.
Author: Eliud KipchogeTopics: Famous, Free, Inspirational, Life, Meaningful, Shortcut
Only the disciplined ones are free in life.
Author: Eliud KipchogeTopics: Discipline, Famous, Free, Inspirational, Life, Meaningful, Motivational
There ain’t no such thing as a free lunch.
Author: Robert A. HeinleinTopics: Experiences, Famous, Free, Lunch, Meaningful, People
If we command our wealth, we shall be rich and free. If our wealth commands us, we are poor indeed.
Author: Edmund BurkeTopics: Command, Famous, Free, Inspirational, Life, Meaningful, People, Poor, Rich, rich and free, Wealth
When I get dressed, it’s like freestyling
Author: Bad BunnyTopics: Dress, Dress Up, Famous, Feelings, Free, Free of cost, Inspirational, Life, Meaningful
My free-kick secret? I just look at the net and say take the kick, Cristiano.
Topics: Free, Free-kick, Kick, Ronaldo, Secret of success, Secretly, Sport, Sports People
Perhaps only when human effort had done it’s best and failed, would God’s power alone be free to work.
Author: Corrie Ten BoomTopics: Efficiency, Effort, Free, Free of cost, God, God willing, Human, Human Activity, Power, Power of nature, Work
Forgiveness is setting the prisoner free, only to find out that the prisoner was me.
Author: Corrie Ten Boom
Topics: Forgive, Forgiveness, Free, Free of cost, Priority, Prisoner
I am free of all prejudices. I hate every one equally.
Author: Groucho MarxTopics: Famous, Free, Hate, Prejudice
It is within our competence to think and become bound, or to cease thinking and thus be free.
Author: Ramana MaharshiTopics: Famous, Feelings, Free, Meaningful
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
Author: Christopher HitchensTopics: Alone, Combination, Devices, Fact, Famous, Feelings, Free, Free of cost, Inspirational, Life, Meaningful, Will, Will power
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.
Author: Golda MeirTopics: Evil, Famous, Free, Jewish state, Murder, Prostitution, Societies, Theft
The Indians are so free about the riches under their possession.
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Author: Christopher ColumbusTopics: Culture, Famous, Free, Freedom, Freedom of expression, Life, Meaningful, Possession, Possibility, Rich, Rich People
Some books leave us free and some books make us free.
Author: Ralph Waldo EmersonTopics: Famous, Free, Leave
When people decide they want to be free, there is nothing that can stop them.
Author: Desmond TutuTopics: Famous, Free, Meaningful
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.
Author: Gilbert K. ChestertonTopics: Famous, Feminism, Free, Help, Husband, Idea, Inspirational, Mixed up, Muddled, Serve, Slaves, Woman
Now that she had nothing to lose, she was free.
Author: Paulo CoelhoTopics: Famous, Free, Meaningful, Nothing
Do not free a camel of the burden of his hump; you may be freeing him from being a camel.
Author: Gilbert K. ChestertonTopics: Famous, Free
If you love someone, you must be prepared to set them free.
Author: Paulo CoelhoTopics: Famous, Free, Inspirational, Meaningful, Prepared
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.
Author: Douglas AdamsTopics: Contract, Famous, Free, Life, Meaningful
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.
Author: Paul HarveyTopics: Famous, Free, Meaningful, Positive, Public
Touch my children and I will eat your hands off your freakin arms.
Author: Charlie Sheen
Topics: Child, Children, Famous, Feelings, Framework, Freaks, Free, Life, Meaningful, Will, Will power
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.
Author: Dante AlighieriTopics: Choice, Famous, Free, Freedom, Grasp, Liberty, Lips, Mankind, Meaningful, Minds, Principles
Conscience, that boon companion who sets a man free under the strong breastplate of innocence, that bids him on and fear not.
Author: Dante AlighieriTopics: Companion, Famous, Fear, Free, Innocence, Meaningful, Strong
The way of life can be free and beautiful. But we have lost the way.
Author: Charlie Chaplin
Topics: Experiences, Famous, Feelings, Free, Free of cost, Life, Lost, Meaningful, Way, Way forward
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?
Author: Charles Spurgeon
Topics: Existence of God, Existential Questions, Experiences, Famous, Fantasy, Feelings, Free, Freedom, God, God willing, Inspirational, Life, Meaningful, Positive, Promises, Surer, Surface, Wonder, Wonderful, World