Acton Lord 1834-1902

The most certain test by which we judge whether a country is really free is the amount of security enjoyed by minorities.

Agar Herbert 1897-1980

A Time for Greatness

The truth which makes men free is for the most part the truth which men prefer not to hear.

Amis Sir Kingsley 1922-1995

„Delivery Guaranteed"

Death has got something to be said for it:
There's no need to get out of bed for it;
Wherever you may be,
They bring it to you, free.

Anonymous

There's no such thing as a free lunch.

Anonymous

Universal Declaration of Human Rights

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

Anouilh Jean 1910-1987

What you get free costs too much.

Aurelius Marcus 121-180

To change your mind and to follow him who sets you right is to be nonetheless the free agent that you were before.

Balzac Honoré De 1799-1850

A mother who is really a mother is never free.

Baraka Imamu Amiri

„Tokenism"

A man is either free or he is not. There cannot be any apprenticeship for freedom.

Bellush Pietro

To be truly free, it takes more determination, courage, introspection and restraint than to be in shackles.

Benson A.C. 1862-1925

Finale to Elgar's Coronation Ode

Land of Hope and Glory, Mother of the Free,
How shall we extol thee who are born of thee?
Wider still and wider shall they bounds be set;
God who made thee mighty, make thee mightier yet.

Beveridge William Henry 1879-1963

Voluntary Action

The state is or can be master of money, but in a free society it is master of very little else.

The Bible

New Testament: St John ch.8v.32

And ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free.

Burke Edmund 1729-1797

On Conciliation with America

Parties must ever exist in a free country.

Cicero Marcus Tullius 106-43 BC

We are in bondage to the law in order that we may be free.

Donne John 1572-1631

Holy Sonnets

Take me to you, imprison me, for I
Except you enthral me, never shall be free,
Nor ever chaste, except you ravish me.

Dryden John 1631-1700

The Conquest of Granada

I am as free as nature first made man,
Ere the base laws of servitude began,
When wild in woods the noble savage ran.

Francis Brendan

The big difference between sex for money and sex for free is that sex for money usually costs a lot less.

Godolphin Sidney 1610-1643

„Song"

Or love me less, or love me more
And play not with my liberty;
Either take all, or all restore,
Bind me at least, or set me free.

Hoffer Eric 1902-1983

When people are free to do as they please, they usually imitate each other. Originality is deliberate and forced, and partakes of the nature of a protest.

Holt John

People should be free to find or make for themselves the kinds  of educational experiences they want their children to have.

James Cyril 1901-1989

A free man is as jealous of his responsibilities as he is of his liberties.

Jefferson Thomas 1743-1826

No government ought to be without censors;  and where the press is free, no one ever will.

Johnson Lyndon B. 1908-1973

I am a free man, an American, a United States Senator, and a Democrat, in that order.

Kafka Franz 1883-1924

The Trial

It's often better to be in chains than to be free.

Kennedy John F. 1917-1963

All free men, wherever they may live, are citizens of Berlin. And therefore, as a free man, I take pride in the word's „Ich bin ein Berliner".

Kennedy John F. 1917-1963

(Inaugural address)

If a free society cannot help the many who are poor, it cannot save the few who are rich.

Key Francis Scott 1779-1843

„The Star-Spangled Banner"

´Tis the star-spangled banner; O long may it wave
O'er the land of the free, and the home of the brave.

Lincoln Abraham 1809-1865

„A house divided against itself cannot stand." I believe this government cannot endure permanently, half slave and half free.

Lincoln Abraham 1809-1865

Letter to Horace Greeley

I have here stated my purpose according to my views of official duty and I intend no modification of my oft-expressed personal wish that all men everywhere could be free.

Lloyd Robert 1733-1764

Second Treatise of Civil Government

Man being ... by nature all free, equal, and independent, no one can be put out of this estate, and subjected to the political power of another, without his own consent.

Longfellow Henry Wadsworth 1807-1882

„The Slave's Dream"

The forests, with their myriad tongues,
Shouted of liberty;
And the Blast of the Desert cried aloud,
With a voice so wild and free,
That he started in his sleep and smiled
At their tempestuous glee.

Magee William Connor 1821-1891

(on the Intoxicating Liquor Bill)

It would be better that England should be free than that
England should be compulsorily sober.

Magna Carta 1215

Clause I

That the English Church shall be free.

Magna Carta 1215

Clause 39

No free man shall be taken or imprisoned or dispossessed, or outlawed or exiled, or in any way destroyed, nor will we go upon him, nor will we send against him except by the lawful judgement of his peers or by the law of the land.

Marx Karl and Engels Friedrich 1818-1883

The Communist Manifesto

In place of the old bourgeois society, with its classes and class antagonists, we shall have an association, in which the free development of each is the free development of all.

Melville Herman 1819-1891

Hawthorne and His Mosses

That Calvinistic sense of innate depravity and original sin from whose visitations, in some shape or other, no deeply thinking mind is always and wholly free.

Merrill James

„The Thousand and Second Night"

Free me, I pray, to go in search of joys
Unembroidered by your high, soft voice,
Along that stony path the senses pave.

Milton John 1608-1674

The Tenure of Kings and Magistrates

No man who knows aught, can be so stupid to deny that all men naturally were born free.

Proverbs and Sayings

Spanish

Laws, like the spider's web, catch the fly and let the hawk go free.

Rousseau Jean-Jacques 1712-1778

Man was born free, and everywhere he is in shackles.

Sanger Margaret 1883-1966

No woman can call herself free who does not own and control her body. No woman can call herself free until she can choose consciously whether she will or will not be a mother.

Sartre Jean-Paul 1905-1980

Being and Nothingness

I am condemned to be free.

Scott C.P. 1846-1932

Comment is free, but facts are sacred.

Solzhenitsyn Aleksandr 1918-

One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich

The thoughts of a prisoner - they're not free
either. They keep returning to the same things.

Solzhenitsyn Aleksandr

The First Circle

When you've robbed a man of everything he's no longer in your power - he's free again.

Sondheim Stephen

West Side Story

I like to be in America!
O.K. by me in America!
Ev'rything free in America
For a small fee in America!

Stevenson Adlai 1900-1965

My definition of a free society is a society where it is safe to be unpopular.

Stevenson Adlai 1900-1965

A hungry man is not a free man.

Sutherland Graham 1903-1980

I don't think anyone is free - one creates one's own prison.

Tagore Sir Rabindranath 1861-1941

The soil, in return for her service, keeps the tree tied to her; the sky asks nothing and leaves it free.

Unstinov Sir Peter

Romanoff and Juliet

This is a free country, madam. We have a right to  share your privacy in a public place.

Voltaire 1694-1778

It is hard to free fools from the chains they revere.

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