Human beings are born with different capacities. If they are free, they are not equal. And if they are equal, they are not free.
Sometimes falsely attributed to Jordan B. Peterson (even though he credits Solzhenitsyn).
Talk is by far the most accessible of pleasures. It costs nothing in money, it is all profit, it completes our education, founds and fosters our friendships, and can be enjoyed at any age and in almost any state of health.
Anything free is worth what you pay for it
Canada is free and freedom is its nationality.
By the will art thou lost, by the will art thou found, by the will art thou free, captive, and bound.
I was a dog on a short chain / and now there's no chain.
Good manners don't cost nothing.
If the husband be a slave and the wife a free woman, the children shall be free like their mother. If the husband be free and the wife a slave, the children shall be slaves.
Louisiana was then a possession of France
Nature's prime favourites were the Pelicans; High-fed, long-lived, and sociable and free.
Joy, has no cost.
We want a Union of free and equal nation states.
The public library is the great equaliser.
What do I think being wild is? Nothing. Actually, the whole world is wild. Everything is wild. There we go.
Martin Luther King (Jr.) during the civil rights movement used to exclaim that he looked forward to heaven where he would be "Free at last." That is the inscription on his tomb in Atlanta.
They say talk is cheap. Maybe so. But kindness is even better—it's free! Free to give. Free to receive. Makes you wonder why there's not more of it, huh?
Rejoice in the great, free emancipation of peoples.
I'm like a caged animal sometimes. Let me yearn to breathe free.
To me, the democratic system represents man's best and brightest hope of self-fulfillment, of a life rich in promise and free from fear; the one hope, perhaps, for the complete development of the whole man. But I know, and learn more clearly every day, that we cannot keep our system strong and free by neglect, by taking it for granted, by giving it our second-best attention. We must be prepared, like the suitor in The Merchant of Venice - and, I might point out, the successful suitor - to give and hazard all we have.
The word 'free' is used three times in the Declaration of Independence and once in the First Amendment to the Constitution, along with 'freedom.' The word 'fair' is not used in either of our founding documents.
I believe only a free society can ever be truly secure. The goal should be to make terrorists feel threatened, not the American people.
The most personal thing I've put in [Touch of Evil] is my hatred of the abuse of police power. It's better to see a murderer go free than for a policeman to abuse his power.
Poetry is like a bird, it ignores all frontiers.
Even if you feel someone has wronged you or owes you something, no one is going to give you anything for free.
What is freedom of expression? Without the freedom to offend, it ceases to exist.
I would contend that we place no other value above the right to be free. We will die for our freedom. In fact, we believe freedom is sufficiently important that we will even die so that others around the globe might be free.