| "In a free state there should be freedom of speech and thought." »Tiberius |
| "A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free state, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed." »U. S. Constitution |
| "It citizenship would give to persons of the negro race, who were recognized as citizens in any one state of the Union, the right to enter every other state whenever they pleased, singly or in companies, without pass or passport, andwithout obstruction, to sojourn there as long as they pleased, to go where they pleased at every hour of the day or night without molestation, unless they committed some violation of the law for which a white man would be punished it citizenship would give them the full liberty of speech in public and in private upon all subjects upon which its own citizens might speak to hold public meetings upon political affairs, and to keep and carry arms wherever they went. And all this would be done in the face of the subject race of the same color, both free and slaves, inevitably producing discontent and insubordination among them, and endangering the peace and safety of the state." »Roger B. Taney |
| "War is an ugly thing, but not the ugliest of things. The decayed and degraded state of moral and patriotic feeling which thinks that nothing is worth war is much worse. The person who has nothing for which he is willing to fight, nothing which is more important than his own personal safety, is a miserable creature and has no chance of being free unless made and kept so by the exertions of better men than himself." »John Stuart Mill |
| "Government, even in its best state, is but a necessary evil in its worst state, an intolerable one." »Thomas Paine |
| "Real poverty is less a state of income than a state of mind." »George F. Gilder |
| "As soon as any man says of the affairs of the state What does it matter to me the state may be given up for lost." »Jean Jacques Rousseau |
| "Spring has sprung. We're free at last, people. free at last. Thank you mother nature, we're free. Time to toss open that metaphysical window and check out that psychic landscape. See lots of possibilities budding out there. Time to hoe those rows, feed that seed. Pretty soon you get a garden." »Robin Green |
| "All men have an equal right to the free development of their faculties they have an equal right to the impartial protection of the state but it is not true, it is against all the laws of reason and equity, it is against the eternal nature of things, that the indolent man and the laborious man, the spendthrift and the economist, the imprudent and the wise, should obtain and enjoy an equal amount of goods." »Victor Cousin |
| "A man who is eating or lying with his wife or preparing to go to sleep in humility, thankfulness and temperance, is, by Christian standards, in an infinitely higher state than one who is listening to Bach or reading Plato in a state of pride." »Clive Staples Lewis |
| "...The electoral franchise has been conferred upon the Negroes in almost all the states in which slavery has been abolished, but if they come forward to vote, their lives are in danger... The same schools do not receive the children of the black and of the European. In the theaters gold cannot procure a seat for the servile race beside their former masters in the hospitals they lie apart... Not only is slavery prohibited in Ohio, but no free Negroes are allowed to enter the territory of that state or to hold property in it." »Alexis Charles Henri Clrel de Tocqueville |
| "Believing with you that religion is a matter which lies solely between man and his God, that he owes account to none other for his faith or his worship, that the legislative powers of government reach actions only, and not opinions, I contemplate with sovereign reverence that act of the whole American people which declared that their legislature should 'make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof,' thus building a wall of separation between Church and state." »Thomas Jefferson |
| "You can only protect your liberties in this world by protecting the other man's freedom. You can only be free if I am free." »Clarence Darrow |
| "If men were born free, they would, so long as they remained free, form no conception of good and evil." »Baruch Spinoza |
| "Restriction of free thought and free speech is the most dangerous of all subversions. It is the one un-American act that could most easily defeat us." »William Orville Douglas |
| "If you make a living, if you earn your own money, you're free -- however free one can be on this planet." »Theodore White |
| "Cheerfulness, it would appear, is a matter which depends fully as much on the state of things within, as on the state of things without and around us." »Charlotte Bronte |
| "Governing sense, mind and intellect, intent on liberation, free from desire, fear and anger, the sage is forever free." »Bhagavad Gita |
| "All free men, wherever they may live, are citizens of Berlin. And therefore, as a free man, I take pride in the words Ich bin ein Berliner" »John Fitzgerald Kennedy |
| "If we value the pursuit of knowledge, we must be free to follow wherever that search may lead us. The free mind is no barking dog to be tethered on a 1-foot chain." »Theodor Wiesengrund Adorno |
| "If we value the pursuit of knowledge, we must be free to follow wherever that search may lead us. The free mind is not a barking dog, to be tethered on a ten-foot chain." »Adlai E. Jr. Stevenson |
| "The state exists for man, not man for the state. The same may be said of science. These are old phrases, coined by people who saw in human individuality the highest human value. I would hesitate to repeat them, were it not for the ever recurring danger that they may be forgotten, especially in these days of organization and stereotypes." »Albert Einstein |
| "The basic test of freedom is perhaps less in what we are free to do than in what we are free not to do." »Eric Hoffer |
| "Justice is the end of government. It is the end of civil society. It ever has been and ever will be pursued until it be obtained, or until liberty be lost in the pursuit. In a society under the forms of which the stronger faction can readily unite and oppress the weaker, anarchy may as truly be said to reign as in a state of nature, where the weaker individual is not secured against the violence of the stronger and as, in the latter state, even the individuals are prompted, by the uncertainty of their condition, to submit to a government which may protect the weak as well as themselves so, in the former state, will the more powerful factions or parties be gradually induced, by a like motive to wish for a government which will protect all parties, the weaker as well as the more powerful." »Alexander Hamilton |
| "free speech is the whole thing, the whole ball game. free speech is life itself." »David Mamet |
| "We're in the hands of the state legislature and God, but at the moment, the state legislature has more to say than God." »Edward Irving Koch |
| "I only ask to be free. The butterflies are free." »Charles Dickens |
| "While the state exists, there can be no freedom. When there is freedom there will be no state." »Lenin |
| "We must not believe the many, who say that only free people ought to be educated, but we should rather believe the philosophers who say that only the educated are free." »Epictetus |
| "Frank oh, say can you see, buy the dawn's early light, what so proudly we hailed at the twilight's last gleaming. who's bright strips and broad stars, in the parelious night, o'er the rampart's we watched, as the da da, da, da, da, da, and the rocket's red glare, lots of bombs in the air, gave proof to the night, that we still had a flag, oh say does that spangle banner wave, over all-l-l-l-l that's free, over the home, of the land, and the land of the free" »Naked Gun From the Files of Police Squad |
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