I Am Free Quotes

One radical free spirit nonconformist is pretty much like another.

'Tis substantially true, that virtue or morality is a necessary spring of popular government. The rule indeed extends with more or less force to every species of free Government.

I had to abandon free market principles in order to save the free market system.

Some people use half their ingenuity to get into debt, and the other half to avoid paying it.

By focusing once and for all on helping the Palestinians build a free society, I have no doubt that an historic compromise between Israelis and Palestinians can be reached and that peace can prevail.

I believe that man is in the last resort so free a being that his right to be what he believes himself to be cannot be contested.

I always knew that someday I would once again feel the grass under my feet and walk in the sunshine as a free man.

It didn't take long to recognise the shortcomings of the Soviet regime and to see the values of the free world.

Free will is the thing you have to have if you're going to be responsible in this all-or-nothing way. That's what I mean by free will. That's what I think we haven't got and can't have.

For what is man without desires, without free will, and without the power of choice but a stop in an organ pipe?

The strongest knowledge (that of the total freedom of the human will) is nonetheless the poorest in successes: for it always has the strongest opponent, human vanity.

What a free society offers to the individual is much more than what he would be able to do if only he were free.

You have to free yourself from your mental conditioning through association with the holy, through doing good works, through meditating, through laughter, through love and through solitude.

I could, as a free man, look across the bay toward the Eastern Shore where I was born a slave.

The first amendment protects free speech, but if you don't have freedom of thought, do you really have freedom of speech?

And one who is just of his own free will shall not lack for happiness; and he will never come to utter ruin.

Once you free yourself from the need for perfect acceptance, it's a lot easier to launch work that matters.

Loyalty in a free society depends upon the toleration of disloyalty.

The recent developments in cosmology strongly suggest that the universe may be the ultimate free lunch.

Having money is a way of being free of money.

Whereas the Greeks gave to will the boundaries of reason, we have come to put the will's impulse in the very center of reason, which has, as a result, become deadly.

All our thinking is of this nature, a free play with concepts.

No man need fear death, he need fear only that he may die without having known his greatest power: the power of his free will to give his life for others

We try to 'self-medicate' ourselves against boredom with mobile phones in any given moment of free time.

I don't call myself a Buddhist. I'm a free spirit. I believe I'm here on earth to admire and enjoy it; that's my religion.

I could never live happily in Africa-or anywhere else-until I could live freely in Mississippi.

I switch between fixed forms and free verse often, and enjoy being a poet who can "swing both ways," so to speak.

Over 70 years after Hitler, a German chancellor, a woman, is the leader of the free world. So don't talk to me about irrevocable.

Be drug-free and smoke some crack.

In many ways, my attachment to human freedom was completely compatible with my right to live freely as a homosexual.

Ignorant free speech often works against the speaker. That is one of several reasons why it must be given rein instead of suppressed.

There is nothing so fretting and vexatious, nothing so justly terrible to tyrants, and their tools and abettors, as a free press.

Unfortunately, the problem of the free speech argument is that you have to defend people you can't stand.

Margaret Thatcher - this great lady has not only served her country well, she has served the free world well.

It is not empty rhetoric to talk of the Free World.

Take free speech: most of the tough cases on free speech involve very unpleasant people saying very obnoxious things.

Because of the Korean free trade agreement, South Koreans who want Oregon blueberries are gonna see their prices go down because we will be getting rid of a 45 percent tariff on this Oregon product.

The free man is not he who defies the rules ... but he who, recognizing the compulsions inherent in his being, seeks rather to read, mark, learn, and inwardly digest each day's experience.

Catholic theology believes that God gave man free will, and you can't give somebody free will and then send in a play from the sidelines.

There is no more important struggle for American democracy than ensuring a diverse, independent and free media. Free Press is at the heart of that struggle.

You call yourself what you want to call yourself. This is the land of the free.

We shouldn't have free speech.

Anything that loosens you up and makes you freer is good, because that's what acting and performing is all about - being free. It gives you a better connection to the audience.

If Thomas Jefferson had heard us, he probably would have said, 'We shouldn't have free speech.'

The happiness which God designs for his higher creatures is the happiness of being freely, voluntarily united to him.

Begin to free yourself at once by doing all that is possible with the means you have, and as you proceed in this spirit the way will open for you to do more.

The social sciences are usually concerned with groups of persons rather than individual persons. The behavior of individuals, being free, is unpredictable.

Here is the basic question: Are we marionettes, or are we creatures of free will who just happen to have a lot of jerky reflexes?

My vocal cords lived their own life, wild and free.

A slave cannot be freed, save he do it himself. Nor can you enslave a free man; the very most you can do is kill him!