A Quotes
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“A free and stable Iraq will be a shining light against the shadow of Islamic extremism.”
“A free and truly independent press - fiercely independent when necessary - is the red beating heart of freedom and democracy.”
“A free citizen in a free state, it seems to me, has an inalienable right to play with whomsoever he will, so long as he does not disturb the general peace. If any other citizen, offended by the spectacle, makes a pother, then that other citizen, and not the man exercising his inalienable right, should be put down by the police.”
“A free country has more firecrackers than firearms.”
Source: Plotless
“A free culture has been our past, but it will only be our future if we change the path we are on right now.”
Source: Free Culture
“A free culture is not a culture without property; it is not a culture in which artists don't get paid.”
Source: Free Culture
“A free culture is not a culture without property; it is not a culture in which artists don't get paid. A culture without property, or in which creators can't get paid, is anarchy, not freedom. Anarchy is not what I advance here. Instead, the free culture that I defend in this book is a balance between anarchy and control.”
Source: Free Culture
“A free culture supports and protects creators and innovators. It does this directly by granting intellectual property rights. But it does so indirectly by limiting the reach of those rights, to guarantee that follow-on creators and innovators remain as free as possible from the control of the past. A free culture is not a culture without property, just as a free market is not a market in which everything is free. The opposite of a free culture is a "permission culture" -- a culture in which creators get to create only with the permission of the powerful, or of creators from the past.”
“A free curiosity is more effective in learning than a rigid discipline.”
“A free economy and strong communities honor the dignity of every person, rewarding effort with justice, promoting upward mobility, and building solidarity among citizens.”
“A free government is of all others the most energetic.”
Source: Thomas Jefferson: A Chronology of His Thoughts
“A free government with an uncontrolled power of military conscription is the most ridiculous and abominable contradiction and nonsense that ever entered into the heads of men.”
“A free horse where there is no man on its saddle always looks more beautiful than a slave horse with a man on its saddle!”
“A free India will throw all her weight in favour of world disarmament and should herself be prepared to give a lead in this.”
Source: Collected Works
“A free life cannot acquire many possessions, because this is not easy to do without servility to mobs or monarchs.”
“A free life is still free for great souls. Verily, whoever possesses little is possessed that much less: praised be a little poverty!”
“A free man - is a man who is free internally. As all other people, externally he or she depends on society. Internally he or she is independent. A society can become liberated externally - from oppression, but it can become free only when the majority of people are free internally.”
“A free man can live on fish.Independence is better than meat”
“A free man does not do what must be done, but what should be done.”
“A free man is he that, in those things which by his strength and wit he is able to do, is not hindered to do what he has a will to.”
“A free man is he who does not fear to go to the end of his thought.”
“A free man must not be told how to think, either by the government or by social activists. He may certainly be shown the right way, but he must not accept being forced into it.”
“A free man thinks of nothing less than of death; and his wisdom is a meditation not on death but on life.”
“A free man, when he fails, blames nobody.”
“A free man will ask neither what his country can do for him nor what he can do for his country.”
Source: Capitalism and Freedom: Fortieth Anniversary Edition
“A free man, who lives among ignorant people, tries as much as he can to refuse their benefits. .. He who lives under the guidance of reason endeavours as much as possible to repay his fellow's hatred, rage, contempt, etc. with love and nobleness.”
“A free market was never meant to be a free licence to take whatever you can get, however you can get it.”
“A free mind and a free market are corollaries.”
Source: For the New Intellectual: The Philosophy of Ayn Rand (50th Anniversary Edition)
“A free mind is one which is untroubled and unfettered by anything, which has not bound its best part to any particular manner of being or worship and which does not seek its own interest in anything but is always immersed in God's most precious will. . . . There is no work which men and women can perform, however small, which does not draw from this its power and strength.”
“A free mind, is your best freedom.”
“A free nation of good willed and hardworking people will be better developed than a nation of lazy people with good will but are bound”
“A free peasant means free Poland, for he is the foundation of her greatness and independence.”
“A free people [claim] their rights as derived from the laws of nature, and not as the gift of their chief magistrate.”
Source: Memoirs, Correspondence, and Private Papers of Thomas Jefferson: Late President of the United States
“A free people ought not only to be armed, but disciplined; to which end a uniform and well-digested plan is requisite.”
Source: Maxims of Washington: Political, Social, Moral, and Religious
“A free people ought not only to be armed, but disciplined; to which end a uniform and well-digested plan is requisite; and their safety and interest require that they should promote such manufactories as tend to render them independent of others for essential, particularly military, supplies.”
Source: The Writings of George Washington: Being His Correspondence, Addresses, Messages, and Other Papers, Official and Private, Selected and Published from the Original Manuscripts; with a Life of the Author, Notes and Illustrations
“A free people, free to believe as we wish, free to speak our minds, free to raise our children as we see fit, will, make no mistake about it, endure.”
“A free press can only exist where there is private control over the means of production”
“A free press can, of course, be good or bad, but, most certainly without freedom, the press will never be anything but bad.”
“A free press doesn't mean it's not a tame press.”
Source: Two Trains Running: A Novel
“A free press is not a privilege but an organic necessity in a great society. ... A great society is simply a big and complicated urban society.”
“A free press is not a privilege but an organic necessity in a great society. Without criticism and reliable and intelligent reporting, the government cannot govern. For there is no adequate way in which it can keep itself informed about what the people of the country are thinking and doing and wanting.”
“A free press is one of the pillars of democracy.”
Source: In the Words of Nelson Mandela
“A free press is one that prints a dictator's speech but doesn't have to.”
“A free press is one where it's okay to state the conclusion you're led to by the evidence. One reason I'm in hot water is because my colleagues and I at NOW didn't play by the conventional rules of Beltway journalism. Those rules divide the world into Democrats and Republicans, liberals and conservatives, and allow journalists to pretend they have done their job if instead of reporting the truth behind the news, they merely give each side an opportunity to spin the news.”
“A free press is the immune system of representative democracy.”
“A free press isn't the enemy of America; it's a big part of why makes America great.”
“A free press stands as one of the great interpreters between the government and the people. To allow it to be fettered is to fetter ourselves.”
“A free public broadcast license is a privilege.”
“A free race cannot be born of slave mothers.”
“A free ride and free food are two of the three things no pilot ever turns down.”