Free expression is the base of human rights, the root of human nature and the mother of truth. To kill free speech is to insult human rights, to stifle human nature and to suppress truth.
The fact that our government is using instruments of government like the IRS to punish its opponents, this is not the kind of thing that is a Democrat or a Republican issue. This is an American issue… A lot of people do not feel free to express themselves.
Old age, calm, expanded, broad with the haughty breadth of the universe, old age flowing free with the delicious near-by freedom of death.
Free speech is one of the most important things to me, but I think it gets confusing when it comes to offense. Because for one, just because you have the right to say anything, it doesn’t mean you have to.
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.
A free race cannot be born of slave mothers.
The doctrine that all men are, in any sense, or have been, at any time, free and equal, is an utterly baseless fiction.
God is not willing to do everything, and thus take away our free will and that share of glory which belongs to us.
Radical changes in world politics leave America with a heightened responsibility to be, for the world, an example of a genuinely free, democratic, just and humane society.
Free men have arms; slaves do not.
If you were a new guy at ILM, they put you on the night crew – my shift was from 7 P.M. to about 5 A.M. In my free time, I was working on an idea with my older brother, a software engineer getting his doctorate at the University of Michigan. Ultimately, it developed into Photoshop.
Once you accept your own death, all of a sudden you’re free to live. You no longer care about your reputation. You no longer care except so far as your life can be used tactically to promote a cause you believe in.
Lincoln merely nominally freed the bodies of Negroes. But Debs would free the bodies and minds of Negroes.
The benefits of education and of useful knowledge, generally diffused through a community, are essential to the preservation of a free government.
The Internet is a free and open platform. Everyone has the right to speak. However, compliance with the law is the bottom line that no one should violate.
I only ask to be free. The butterflies are free.
Smile, it’s free therapy.
Errors of opinion may be tolerated where reason is left free to combat it.
When I am free to train and free to move, I feel like a gorilla in the jungle. Then, when there are a bunch of media obligations, I feel like I have been captured and am being kept on display.
Good thing we’ve still got politics in Texas – finest form of free entertainment ever invented.
Just to be spontaneous and free is life’s biggest luxury and privilege when life is so busy.
Free will is an illusion. People always choose the perceived path of greatest pleasure.
I’ve always been very comfortable wearing not much, in my swimwear or my underwear, or running around naked. I’ve always been very free like that. I don’t really know why, exactly, but I just have been. Not really too shy about that.
Even if I was in prison, I could be free in my head. I can adapt easily.
You can’t play like that in any conference, where bigs just continually get offensive rebounds and get fouled and get to the free throw line.
Don’t ignore the past, but deal with it, on your own pace. Once you deal with it, you are free of it; and you are free to embrace your life and be a happy loving person because if you don’t, the past will come back to haunt and keep coming back to haunt you.
In almost everything that touches our everyday life on earth, God is pleased when we’re pleased. He wills that we be as free as birds to soar and sing our maker’s praise without anxiety.
With the price of life these days, you’ve got to get everything for free you can.
For a people who are free, and who mean to remain so, a well-organized and armed militia is their best security.
I have fallen in love with the imagination. And if you fall in love with the imagination, you understand that it is a free spirit. It will go anywhere, and it can do anything.
Bain also asked Kansas City for a $3 million tax break. The Bain executives were taking home $36 million in borrowed funds and were asking Kansas City to forfeit $3 million in public money for police officers, roads and schools? More free stuff!
But I don’t actually adopt the point of view that our subjective impression of free will, which is a kind of indeterminacy behavior, comes from quantum mechanical indeterminacy.
Ultimately, you choose to be happy or miserable. The reality is that although you are free to choose, you can’t choose the consequences of your choices. They’re preloaded. It’s a package deal.
Do not free a camel of the burden of his hump; you may be freeing him from being a camel.
I am truly free only when all human beings, men and women, are equally free. The freedom of other men, far from negating or limiting my freedom, is, on the contrary, its necessary premise and confirmation.
I’m just going to go live life. I’m going to go enjoy life. I have nothing left to hide. I am kind of a free person, a free soul.
The war on drugs has made government more powerful, citizens less free, and hasn’t helped users or addicts.
Let men decide firmly what they will not do, and they will be free to do vigorously what they ought to do.
To complete your daily mental hygiene, observe any part of you that is upset or anxious, and offer that part of yourself the following simple wishes: ‘May you be well. May you be happy. May you be free from suffering.’ Repeat this until you actually mean it.
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.
To be free and to live a free life – that is the most beautiful thing there is.
Until every soul is freely permitted to investigate every book and creed and dogma for itself, the world cannot be free.
In giving freedom to the slave, we assure freedom to the free – honorable alike in that we give and what we preserve. We shall nobly save, or meanly lose, the last best hope of earth.
To be without guile is to be free of deceit, cunning, hypocrisy, and dishonesty in thought or action.
It’s ironic, but until you can free those final monsters within the jungle of yourself, your life, your soul is up for grabs.
Certainly there’s a phenomenon around open source. You know free software will be a vibrant area. There will be a lot of neat things that get done there.
Every citizen should be a soldier. This was the case with the Greeks and Romans, and must be that of every free state.
A person needs a little madness, or else they never dare cut the rope and be free.
Slavery is not the only question which comes up in this controversy. There is a far more important one to you, and that is, what shall be done with the free negro?
I’m an online shopper, so that’s what I do in my free time. A lot of online shopping, and I just like to see new styles and new people.
In an economy where more and more value is in information – is in the bits, not the atoms, where bits can be copied essentially for free – any time you have that situation, economic schemes that rely on existing models of intellectual property laws for protection are going to do less and less well.
I doubt if a single individual could be found from the whole of mankind free from some form of insanity. The only difference is one of degree. A man who sees a gourd and takes it for his wife is called insane because this happens to very few people.
I believe this government cannot endure permanently, half slave and half free.
Children should be able to live a life free from bullying and harassment and it is time that we all took a stand against this.
Providing free access to research papers on websites like Sci-Hub breaks so-called copyright law that was made to taboo free distribution of information on the Internet. That includes music, movies, documentaries, books, and research articles. Not everyone agrees that copyright law should exist in the first place.
Decision is a risk rooted in the courage of being free.
Iraq may get peace and stability through restoring it’s sovereignty under participation of all Iraqi factions and sectarian groups, who must rebuild a new democratic, free and independent Iraq.
A free and truly independent press – fiercely independent when necessary – is the red beating heart of freedom and democracy.
Now that we are poor, we are free. No white man controls our footsteps.
Nothing is more false than the notion that the triumph of Communism is inevitable or that the Communists are steadily pushing the free world into a corner.
Robots will someday, or maybe, wake up. They may be really smart. They may be as creative, smart and capable as human beings, and fully conscious, and self discerning with free will.
Freedom – to walk free and own no superior.
Politicians of both parties told us that free trade with Asia and Latin America would spur economic growth, and maybe it did somewhere else. In our towns, though, factories continue shutting down or moving overseas.
