free Quotes
Daily selection of quotes about free.
“I'm single, footloose and fancy free, I have no responsibilities, no anchors. Work, friendship and self-improvement, that's me.”
- Joel Edgerton
“I am free because I know that I alone am morally responsible for everything I do. 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. I am free because I know that I alone am morally responsible for everything I do.”
- Robert A. Heinlein
“We are not to give credit to the many, who say that none ought to be educated but the free but rather to the philosophers, who say that the well-educated alone are free.”
- Epictetus
“A well-instructed people alone can be permanently a free people.”
- James Madison
“Fear of serious injury alone cannot justify oppression of free speech and assembly. Men feared witches and burnt women. It is the function of speech to free men from the bondage of irrational fears.”
- Louis D. Brandeis
“He alone is free who lives with free consent under the entire guidance of reason.”
- Baruch Spinoza
“Only that thing is free which exists by the necessities of its own nature, and is determined in its actions by itself alone.”
- Baruch Spinoza
“Others indeed may talk, and write, and fight about liberty, and make an outward pretence to it but the free-thinker alone is truly free.”
- George Berkeley
“Whatever my individual desires were to be free, I was not alone. There were many others who felt the same way.”
- Rosa Parks
“Americans different in some maybe thoughts or emphasis still have the same ideas. They want a government that lets them be free, that leaves them alone, that doesn't interrupt and interfere with every aspect of their life, that lets them go to work and keep more of what they've worked hard to have.”
- Mike Huckabee