Legum servi sumus ut liberi esse possimus

The best slave is the one who thinks he is free.

I even feel guilty if I’m reading a novel, because I think I should be reading Homer again. I don’t really know what free time is, because I don’t have something to measure it against.

Our contest is not only whether we ourselves shall be free, but whether there shall be left to mankind an asylum on earth for civil and religious liberty.

It is not money that makes a person free, but it is the knowledge of God’s truths.

The first census in 1790 asked just six questions: the name of the head of the household, the number of free white males older than 16, the number of free white males younger than 16,...

Despite its enormous power and wealth, China’s ruling elite remains absolutely petrified that the free flow of information will undermine its political legitimacy, particularly among China’s younger generation.

They fancied themselves free, and no one will ever be free so long as there are pestilences.

God seldom suspends the laws of nature, just as God does not remove free will to keep evil people from doing evil things.

The right combination is between a free economy and social policy that addresses the needs of society and creates equal opportunity.

I think we need to consider a radical rewrite of any form of patriotism that serves the individual at the expense of the community, as that is nothing more than patriotism to one’s own small...

Trust free people and free enterprise as opposed to meddling, burdensome government.

Many of us fight for and boast our freedom of what is ultimately the ability to prove ourselves to other people. It is unfortunate that only a few of us are so free in our...

‘Strider’ I am to one fat man who lives within a day’s march of foes that would freeze his heart, or lay his little town in ruin, if he were not guarded ceaselessly. Yet we...

There are no lungs like the ones that breathe poetry.

I am free to go wherever I want for the rest of my life.

That is why we wholeheartedly support the American-led effort to free the people of Iraq. And though we are a small country with a small military, we are proud to stand side by side with...

What you get free costs too much.

Man will be free only when he frees both himself and all other creatures!

What’s truly important–and what I find myself forgetting and having to relearn–is that right here, right now, I am free. Free to be myself and to express myself.

In politics, everybody is free to choose his friends and allies.

I was just teasing,” I say. “I myself don’t like to eat plain butter, but hey, it’s a free world.

At this very moment I’m behind on a compilation that Slave Labor is doing for Free Comic Book Day.

You want to be free. You also want to be mine. You can’t be both.

The free, independent spirit who commits himself to no dogma and will not decide in favor of any party has no homestead on earth.

Information wants to be free.

I don’t like to spend a lot of money on haircuts: I’ll sometimes grow my hair and get an acting job and get them to cut it for free. I think for a lady, though,...

Late 19th-century populists saw bankers and industrialists manipulating markets to enrich themselves at the expense of small farmers and labourers and favoured political candidates promising economic relief through free and unlimited coinage of silver.

I want to do what little I can to make my country truly free, to broaden the intellectual horizon of our people, to destroy the prejudices born of ignorance and fear, to do away with...

Sex swims in marriage, while sex sinks in sin of being single.

If we are to be truly free, that freedom will come through cooperation and tolerance with one another.

There are gigantic trees that have grown tall into the winds and the clouds over the thousands of years of their lives, their tops are rustled and tossed by the mists of the atmosphere! Then...

On weekends, the U.S. was casual; in Italy the weekend was very formal. I came to understand that weekends are about free time, and that one could wear high quality, tasteful products that weren’t so...

That a majority of the Abolitionists in this place would patronize a free labor store, in preference to others, I do not doubt; but we do not muster money in Cincinnati.

From the U.S. Capitol Building to the White House, our national symbols that represent freedom to so many of us, were built by people who were anything but free.

What youths need to grow is the truth that will set them free from inimical lies and limiting ignorance

The Internet has provided small communities for racism online, and people feel free to do it. Ultimately, there should be some consequence – if you promote your racism online then there should be a consequence.

We jumped into water so clear and warm that it was like jumping from air to air. The sand rose up under us and we floated to where it met the sea and walked out...

Worry denies the power of God and produces no good results. Worry adds no value to your life. Eliminate it with God’s help.

Sell canoes to those who are enduring a drought, and sell sunscreen to those suffering from flooding. But give love freely to all, because samples encourage sales.

I think being famous is more of a hindrance, a constraint, than just letting yourself be free.

Because as a youngster I longed to see the Black man free and I longed to see anyone stand up for us.

A free Net may depend on some wisely developed and implemented locks and a community ethos that secures the keys to those locks among groups with shared norms and a sense of public purpose rather...

The truth is, no one of us can be free until everybody is free.

It’s extremely hard to build a company with a product that everyone loves, is free and has no business model, and then to innovate a business model. I did that with Kazaa, had half a...

I went out as a free agent in Boston and had a great year and I priced myself out of there market, at the time.

Grace is upside-down, to-do-list wrecking, scandalous and way-too free. It’s one-way love.

Being in the depths of the ocean was like being in the womb, suspended in a liquid environment, listening to my own breathing and heartbeat. Whether it was the serenity and security of being surrounded...

If you think you’re free, there’s no escape possible.

Laughter is the only medicine, without side effects.