To Be Free Quotes

Revolution will free society of its afflictions, while science will free the individual of his.

The inner man cannot be forced to do out of his own free will, what he should do, except the grace of God change the heart and make it willing.

One of the symptoms of being free is you begin to dream.

The more you try to control something, the more it controls you. Free yourself, and let things take their own natural course.

I believe in Spiritualism; I advocate free love in the highest, purest sense, as the only cure for the damnation by which men corrupt God's most holy institution of sexual relations.

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

If there is no free speech, every single life has lived in vain

There is no more expensive thing than a free gift.

It takes discipline to be a free spirit.

Freedom to do what one likes is really bondage, while being free to do what one must, what is right, is real freedom.

Two things form the bedrock of any open society - freedom of expression and rule of law. If you don't have those things, you don't have a free country.

A man who is not afraid is not aggressive, a man who has no sense of fear of any kind is really a free, a peaceful man.

Take a walk outside - it will serve you far more than pacing around in your mind.

I am free, no matter what rules surround me. If I find them tolerable, I tolerate them; if I find them too obnoxious, I break them.

To win the big games you must get to the Free Throw line, and then you must make them.

People only mention it's a free country if they're doing something shitty.

It is a seldom proffered argument as to the advantages of a free press that it has a major function in keeping the government itself informed as to what the government is doing.

Collective judgment of new ideas is so often wrong that it is arguable that progress depends on individuals being free to back their own judgment despite collective disapproval.

Man is a masterpiece of creation if for no other reason than that, all the weight of evidence for determinism notwithstanding, he believes he has free will.

You only have power over people so long as you don't take everything away from them. But when you've robbed a man of everything, he's no longer in your power - he's free again.

The core political values of our free society are so deeply embedded in our collective consciousness that only a few malcontents, lunatics generally, ever dare to threaten them.

Decision is a risk rooted in the courage of being free.

I was not born to be free---I was born to adore and obey.

Free software is software that respects your freedom and the social solidarity of your community. So it's free as in freedom.

To be free is to have achieved your life.

None who have always been free can understand the terrible fascinating power of the hope of freedom to those who are not free.

Republic. I like the sound of the word. It means people can live free, talk free, go or come, buy or sell, be drunk or sober, however they choose. Some words give you a feeling.

The very essence of a free government consists in considering offices as public trusts, bestowed for the good of the country, and not for the benefit of an individual or a party.

You can't have it both ways. You can't have both free will and a benevolent higher power who protects you from yourself.

Free will carried many a soul to hell, but never a soul to heaven.

The best things in life are free. The second best things are very, very expensive.

It is the debtor that is ruined by hard times.

Take advantage of this human boat; Free yourself from sorrow's mighty stream! This vessel will be later hard to find. The time that you have now, you fool, is not for sleep!

Criticism of government finds sanctuary in several portions of the 1st Amendment. It is part of the right of free speech. It embraces freedom of the press

There's no limit to what free men and free women in a free market with free enterprise can accomplish when people are free to follow their dream.

There's too much tendency to attribute to God the evils that man does of his own free will.

Faith, repentance, and holiness are no less the free gifts of God than eternal life.

And I keep on fighting for the things I want. Though I know that when you're dead you can't. But I'd rather be a free man in my grave, than living as a puppet or a slave.

In order to live free and happily you must sacrifice boredom. It is not always an easy sacrifice.

This error of free will is a special doctrine of the Antichrist.

All human beings are born free and equal in dignity and rights.

It is what we are forced to do that forms our character, not what we do of our own free will.

Sometimes becoming drug free has less to do with addiction and more to do with sanity.

There are many ways to be free. One of them is to transcend reality by imagination, as I try to do.

If we are a free country, we have the right to be free.

We need a constitutional amendment to allow the legislature to control the so-called free speech rights of corporations.

Free speech is the whole thing, the whole ball game. Free speech is life itself.

Nothing is more wonderful than the art of being free, but nothing is harder to learn how to use than freedom.

I frankly confess that even if it were possible I should not wish to have free choice given to me, or to have anything left in my own hands by which I might strive for salvation.

Erecting the 'wall of separation between church and state'... is absolutely essential in a free society.