Absolute liberty is absence of restraint; responsibility is restraint; therefore, the ideally free individual is responsible to himself.
With a library you are free, not confined by temporary political climates. It is the most democratic of institutions because no one – but no one at all – can tell you what to read and when and how.
Only the wise know just where predestination ends and free will begins. Meanwhile, you must keep on doing your best, according to your own clearest understanding. you must long for freedom as the drowning man longs for air. Without sincere longing, you will never find God.
The United Nations is our one great hope for a peaceful and free world.
Innovation can only occur where you can breathe free.
In a free society, government reflects the soul of its people. If people want change at the top, they will have to live in different ways. Our major social problems are not the cause of our decadence. They are a reflection of it.
The person who has nothing for which he is willing to fight, nothing which is more important than his own personal safety, is a miserable creature and has no chance of being free unless made and kept so by the exertions of better men than himself.
Protected free speech has boundaries, and one boundary is fraud.
Without free, self-respecting, and autonomous citizens there can be no free and independent nations. Without internal peace, that is, peace among citizens and between the citizens and the state, there can be no guarantee of external peace.
I groan daily under a body of sin and corruption. Oh for the time when I shall drop this flesh, and be free from sin!
The four characteristics of humanism are curiosity, a free mind, belief in good taste, and belief in the human race.
I was born on the prairies where the wind blew free and there was nothing to break the light of the sun. I was born where there were no enclosures.
Close alliances with despots are never safe for free states.
It’s a free society. But don’t tell the world that we can feed the present population without chemical fertilizer. That’s when this misinformation becomes destructive.
The American flag, Old Glory, standing tall and flying free over American soil for 228 years is the symbol of our beloved country. It is recognized from near and afar, and many lives have been lost defending it.
For someone who writes fiction, in order to activate the imagination and the unconscious, it’s essential to be free.
There are many ways to be free. One of them is to transcend reality by imagination, as I try to do.
The best artist has that thought alone Which is contained within the marble shell; The sculptor’s hand can only break the spell To free the figures slumbering in the stone.
Only man is permitted to live without rhythm in order that he can become free. However, he must of his own accord bring rhythm again into the chaos.
Free music, to me, is music without boundaries. It’s music that… says you don’t have to play a blues in three chord change. See what I’m saying? Music that can go from any range.
I went to law school for one reason and one reason only. To slay giants for a price. And if the giant is big enough and the cause is important enough, I’ll do it for free, especially when it involves helping those who cannot help themselves.
I am an artist, and I have the ability and the free will to choose the way the world will envision me.
Free people, remember this maxim: we may acquire liberty, but it is never recovered if it is once lost.
Where the press is free and every man able to read, all is safe.
I’ve been lucky to do the job I do because I’ve travelled, and that’s probably the best perk of the job… well, that and the free lunches.
No government ought to be without censors; and where the press is free no one ever will.
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.
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.
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 all need somebody to talk to. It would be good if we talked… not just pitter-patter, but real talk. We shouldn’t be so afraid, because most people really like this contact; that you show you are vulnerable makes them free to be vulnerable.
Civilization is the progress toward a society of privacy. The savage’s whole existence is public, ruled by the laws of his tribe. Civilization is the process of setting man free from men.
I love being naked. I’m a free spirit.
I think modern medicine has become like a prophet offering a life free of pain. It is nonsense. The only thing I know that truly heals people is unconditional love.
When I do have free time, I spend it with friends, or I spend it at home writing or making something.
I believe that it is better to tell the truth than a lie. I believe it is better to be free than to be a slave. And I believe it is better to know than to be ignorant.
The existence of an area of free land, its continuous recession, and the advance of American settlement, explain American development.
Democracy relies on free speech. Yes, say anything you want, but it relies even more on the speech being truthful. It is the truth, after all, that sets us free.
Data can set you free.
My hobbies are linked to the way I want to play soccer. I want to do different action things, like kite surfing, snowboarding, mountain biking, freeriding with skis. I like these sports in my free time and it could be a big link with how I want to play soccer.
I was 18 years old, and it was a dream come true for me to work out and eat great food for free. What else do you want in life? People think that is what it is like to be in a SEAL team, but it is less than a fraction of your career as a real SEAL.
It is with your aid, as the people, that I think we shall be able to preserve – not the country, for the country will preserve itself, but the institutions of the country – those institutions which have made us free, intelligent and happy – the most free, the most intelligent, and the happiest people on the globe.
Some people regard discipline as a chore. For me, it is a kind of order that sets me free to fly.
My duty is to call for free elections because there is an abuse of power, and we live in a dictatorship.
Writing free verse is like playing tennis with the net down.
Either be wholly slaves or wholly free.
You might as well expect rivers to run backwards as any man born free to be contented penned up.
We would consider it our moral duty to lend all support to the ending of colonialism and imperialism so that people everywhere are free to mould their own destiny.
It doesn’t matter if people take the music for free, because you can’t illegally download a ticket to a concert.
If my body is enslaved, still my mind is free.
The truth will set you free, but first it will make you miserable.
It is as a free French woman who has been able to enjoy, her whole life, the very precious freedoms fought for long and hard by our mothers and grandmothers, that I want to warn about a new form of social, human, and moral regression imposed on us by the migrant crisis.
We champion freedom – but Brexit will mean the next generation is less free to live, work and love across Europe.
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.
Give a man a free hand and he’ll run it all over you.
If Sunday is the Lord’s day, then Saturday belongs to the Devil. It is the only night of the week when he gives out Free passes to the Late show at the Too Much Fun Club.
If you’re just starting out in the workforce, the very best thing you can do for yourself is to get started in your workplace retirement plan. Contribute enough to grab any matching dollars your employer is offering (a.k.a. the last free money on earth).
When the freedom they wished for most was freedom from responsibility, then Athens ceased to be free and was never free again.
I call him free who is led solely by reason.
Fearlessness is not only possible, it is the ultimate joy. When you touch nonfear, you are free.
Either we are all free, or we fail; democracy must belong to all of us.
One of the most beautiful things about Britain, apart from the NHS and the free education, is the British Army.
You know, my first nine years I only played for two teams, Chicago and New York. And the only reason I got traded from New York was the 2010 free agency period, when they had a chance to sign LeBron and D-Wade and that whole class, and I understood that. But from there it’s kind of been a roller coaster.
If repression has indeed been the fundamental link between power, knowledge, and sexuality since the classical age, it stands to reason that we will not be able to free ourselves from it except at a considerable cost.
