Top 525 Free Quotes

To suppress free speech is a double wrong. It violates the rights of the hearer as well as those of the speaker.
Frederick Douglass
If men were born free, they would, so long as they remained free, form no conception of good and evil.
Baruch Spinoza
The role of the teacher remains the highest calling of a free people. To the teacher, America entrusts her most precious resource, her children; and asks that they be prepared… to face the rigors of individual participation in a democratic society.
Shirley Hufstedler
People are free to campaign and they will be free to vote. There won’t be any soldiers, you know, at the queues. Anyone who has the right to vote is free to go and cast his vote anywhere in his own area, in his own constituency.
Robert Mugabe
Justice is expensive in America. There are no Free Passes… You might want to remember this, the next time you get careless and blow off a few Parking Tickets. They will come back to haunt you the next time you see a Cop car in your rear-view mirror.
Hunter S. Thompson
A man has free choice to the extent that he is rational.
Thomas Aquinas
The free sharing and teaching of open source is incompatible with the notion of the solitary genius.
Golan Levin
The main concept is that of an international solidarity expressed in practice through worldwide division of labor: free trade is the principal point in the program of internationalism.
Christian Lous Lange
There will never be a really free and enlightened State until the State comes to recognize the individual as a higher and independent power, from which all its own power and authority are derived, and treats him accordingly.
Henry David Thoreau
Give a man a free hand and he’ll try to put it all over you.
Raoul Walsh
Free nations of the world cannot allow Taiwan, a beacon of democracy, to be subdued by an authoritarian China.
Nick Lampson
There have always been arguments showing that free will is an illusion: some based on hard physics, others based on pure logic.
Ted Chiang
I like reading, writing, hiking, camping, free running,

I like reading, writing, hiking, camping, free running, surfing, rock climbing, long boarding, and so much more.
Nolan Gould
The more research you do, the more at ease you are in the world you’re writing about. It doesn’t encumber you, it makes you free.
A. S. Byatt
Free speech carries with it some freedom to listen.
Warren E. Burger
I have a vision of India: an India free of hunger and fear, an India free of illiteracy and want.
Atal Bihari Vajpayee
Emancipation, to be of any value to the slave, must be the free, voluntary act of the master, performed from a conviction of its propriety.
Elijah Parish Lovejoy
When and under what conditions is the black man to have a free ballot? When is he in fact to have those full civil rights which have so long been his in law?
Benjamin Harrison
Be free, and live life fully.
Caroline Shaw
Developing and newer democracies are much more susceptible to the tactics of populists and demagogues – they often do not have strong institutions, free press, or the infrastructure required to defend their nascent democracies.
Kofi Annan
I hope for nothing. I fear nothing. I am free.
Nikos Kazantzakis
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.
Samuel Adams
China and India are feeding their people for the first time in human history due to free markets, and the Left knows that, and it gets them nervous.
Dave Brat
If you think health care is expensive now, just wait ’til it’s free.
P. J. O’Rourke
No one will frighten the large and free Jewish community of the United States.
Menachem Begin
People cannot be free unless they are willing to sacrifice some of their interests to guarantee the freedom of others. The price of democracy is the ongoing pursuit of the common good by all of the people.
Saul Alinsky
Ignorance has always been the weapon of tyrants; enlightenment the salvation of the free.
Bill Richardson
The truth is found when men are free to pursue it.
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Democracy is a process by which people are free to choose the man who will get the blame.
Laurence J. Peter
Birds sing after a storm; why shouldn’t people feel as free to delight in whatever sunlight remains to them?
Rose Kennedy
Conservatism is the perfect antidote to underdevelopment. Its commitment to individual responsibility, education, hard work, personal initiative, traditional family values and free markets is a universal formula for success in a free society.
Shelby Steele
The true self seeks release, not constraint. It doesn’t want to be corseted in a sonnet or made to learn a system of musical notations. It wants liberation, which is why very often it fastens on the novel, for the novel seems spacious, undefined, free.
Rachel Cusk
The free man is he who does not fear to go to the end of his thought.
Leon Blum
You can’t just slander someone, defame them, lie about them. You can’t incite people to crime. There’s all sorts of reasonable restrictions on free speech that are already codified in the British common-law system.
Jordan Peterson
We will rebuild, renew and remain the capital of the free world.
Michael Bloomberg
I’m fine, but I’m bipolar. I’m on seven medications, and I take medication three times a day. This constantly puts me in touch with the illness I have. I’m never quite allowed to be free of that for a day. It’s like being a diabetic.
Carrie Fisher
I consider myself as a free spokesman for the people.
Dalai Lama
Problems in our country haven’t been caused by Donald Trump, America and its ambitions or CIA spies. Our problems are rooted in a bad government system, the lack of free elections, independent courts and freedom of speech.
Ksenia Sobchak
I ended up breaking a bone in my foot early in my rookie season, and honestly, it was kind of a blessing. I had so much free time while being laid up that I put a lot of time in on film to understand the game from a different vantage point.
C. J. McCollum
I have been dairy free for several years, and I started because I felt it was going to reduce my allergies, which it did, and help me lose weight, which it did.
Fran Drescher
If you build a car, you can only sell it once. If you paint a fence, you only get paid for it once. If you create a piece of software that’s essentially free to reproduce, you can keep getting paid over and over perpetually.
Markus Persson