Free Quotes

The first principle of a free society is an untrammeled flow of words in an open forum.

A free press can, of course, be good or bad, but, most certainly without freedom, the press will never be anything but bad.

The New Deal's enmity for that system of free and competitive private enterprise which we call capitalism was fundamental.

I would like to be remembered as a person who wanted to be free... so other people would be also free.

Everything in life has a price on it - there ain't a damn thing free in America, and football has got a price on it.

I don't feel restricted by the language: I feel more free.

The victory will be only entirely and finally achieved when the whole world is free of Jews.

Information on the Internet must be as free as in the newspapers.

Today we have access to highly advanced technologies. But our social and economic system has not kept up with our technological capabilities that could easily create a world of abundance, free of servitude and debt.

The family is the test of freedom; because the family is the only thing that the free man makes for himself and by himself.

I think the British people are very, very attached to the idea that the health service is free at the point of use. But there is no reason why every doctor, nurse and teacher in this country has to be employed by the state.

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

Whenever I get a free day, I drive up to some part of California that looks promising on the map.

I know I got it made while the masses of black people are catchin' hell, but as long as they ain't free, I ain't free.

The free trade movement in the middle of the last century represents the first conscious recognition of these new circumstances and of the necessity to adapt to them.

I have a healthy body, free of the chemicals that once controlled it.

Primaries are a family fight. I'm a pro-free enterprise, pro-Second Amendment, pro-life Republican.

You must stand for free speech in the streets.

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

Information on the Internet must be as free as in the newspapers.

That's free enterprise, friends: freedom to gamble, freedom to lose. And the great thing - the truly democratic thing about it - is that you don't even have to be a player to lose.

That U.N. Security Council resolution requires getting Syrian troops and intelligence officials out of Lebanon so that the Lebanese can have elections here this spring that are free and fair and free of outside influence.

There is no free market in oil.

Man became free when he recognized that he was subject to law.

To hear the Japanese plead for free trade is like hearing the word love on the lips of a harlot.

U.S. corn exports to CAFTA countries will benefit from reduced tariffs and duty-free access for corn products.

Asking questions is an essential part of police investigation. In the ordinary sense a police officer is free to ask a person for identification without implicating the Fourth Amendment.

In the free/libre software movement, we develop software that respects users' freedom, so we and you can escape from software that doesn't.

I am absolutely opposed to a national ID card. This is a total contradiction of what a free society is all about. The purpose of government is to protect the secrecy and the privacy of all individuals, not the secrecy of government. We don't need a national ID card.

What I'm thinking about more and more these days is simply the importance of transparency, and Jefferson's saying that he'd rather have a free press without a government than a government without a free press.