Free Country Quotes

Where liberty dwells, there is my country.

The United States was built on the idea that we could create a free country that would serve as a haven for those fleeing persecution.

I have four children, and I want them to grow up in a country that has a working First Amendment.

France has had socialist presidents on and off since the 1920s, and it remains a free country. Socialists have ruled in many South American countries without ushering in disaster.

In the light of this monstrous crime we can see that in a free country, which we are and intend to be, unrestrained speech and thought are inherently subversive. Democracy can be made to work only when the bonds of the community are inviolate, and stronger than all parties and factions and interest and sects.

[S]tatism is a system of institutionalized violence and perpetual civil war. It leaves men no choice but to fight to seize political power -- to rob or be robbed, to kill or be killed. ... Statism survives by looting; a free country survives by production.

The political misrepresentation of facts is one of the incidents of a free press in every free country.

In a free country it is the duty of writers to pay no attention to duty.

No free country has ever been without Parties, which are a natural offspring of freedom.

A lot of people forget that Americans are immigrants. People are forgetting that, to where people have this attitude, 'We're Americans, go back to your country. Go back. This is a free country.' I always heard that growing up. I always heard that.

Only by a process of peaceful evolution can China accomplish its own goals of being a free, prosperous, and strong country.

Dacca is now the free capital of a free country.

Statism needs war; a free country does not. Statism survives by looting; a free country survives by producing.

There are a lot of things that are said by people in the military, or civilian life, or in the Congress, or in the Executive Branch, that are their views. And that's the way we live. We're a free people. And that's the wonderful thing about our country.

This is not supposed to be a fascist country, where you are forced to do things you don't want to do. This is a free country.

In every country where man is free to think and to speak, difference of opinion will arise from difference of perception, and the imperfection of reason; but these differences, when permitted, as in this happy country, to purify themselves by free discussion, are but as passing clouds overspreading our land transiently, and leaving our horizon more bright and serene.

Napoleon is a dangerous man in a free country. He seems tome to have the makings of a tyrant, and I believe that were he to be king he would be fully capable of playing such a part, and his name would become an object of detestation to posterity...

… by a free country I mean a country where people are allowed, so long as they do not hurt their neighbors, to do as they like. I do not mean a country where six men may make five men do exactly as they like. That is not my notion of freedom.

When we assumed the Soldier, we did not lay aside the Citizen; and we shall most sincerely rejoice with you in the happy hour when the establishment of American Liberty, upon the most firm and solid foundations shall enable us to return to our Private Stations in the bosom of a free, peacefully and happy Country.

In a free country there is much clamor with little suffering; in a despotic state there is little complaint, but much suffering.

Italy is a free country. Its voters decide freely.

The main influence on voters should be a series of robust debates among the candidates. It's a free country, so this is a tough problem to solve, but I'd love to see an election season with zero political ads, and all voters had to decide based on watching four national debates over the two months leading to election day.

Between richer and poorer classes in a free country a mutually respecting antagonism is much healthier than pity on the one hand and dependence on the other, as is, perhaps, the next best thing to fraternal feeling.

Can you have a free trade agreement with a country that isn't free?

Free speech exercised both individually and through a free press, is a necessity in any country where people are themselves free.