The sovereign being is burdened with a servitude that crushes him, and the condition of free men is deliberate servility.
Free market never succeeded without free men and free society.
A well-instructed people alone can be permanently a free people.
The first need of a free people is to define their own terms.
To impose taxes when the public exigencies require them is an obligation of the most sacred character, especially with a free people.
I wanted to fight in the Iraq war because I felt like I had an obligation as a human being to help free people from oppression.
Work is about more than making a living, as vital as that is. It's fundamental to human dignity, to our sense of self-worth as useful, independent, free people.
It's very difficult for governments to dominate the Internet because it's so difficult to control. People want to be free. People want to hear multiple voices. They want to make their own decisions. And people who see things will report things.
Why on earth would free people remain prisoners in a cage of absurd laws and regulation, with rigid constraints that humiliate the true needs of the people and their country?
I think the real free person in society is one that's disciplined. It's the one that can choose; that is the free one.
The Chinese foreign ministry has said more than once that I am a free person. Did I do anything wrong by leaving my home?
Only by taking responsibility for oneself, to the greatest extent possible, can one ever be free, and only a free person can make responsible choices - between right and wrong, saving and spending, giving or taking.
As a free person, I ought to be allowed if I'm dying to take something.
There's only one free person in this society, and he is white and male.
I really hate bureaucracy and the idea that I'm not a free person.
Developing and newer democracies are much more susceptible to the tactics of populists and demagogues - they often do not have strong institutions, free press, or the infrastructure required to defend their nascent democracies.
A free press needs to be a respected press.
We need a free press. We must have it. It's vital.
In Iran the whole reform and democracy movement has been based on the emerging free press.
The Iraqi Free Press, which did not exist 18 months ago because there was no such thing as the Iraqi Free Press, broke a story about the U.N. Oil-for-Food scandal, which could potentially turn out to be the largest scandal in history.
