Free Man Quotes

• Let me be a free man - free to travel, free to stop, free to work.

  Chief Joseph

  Travel, Native American, Men

  Lincoln Hall Speech in Washington D.C., January 14, 1879.

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• I'd rather be a free man in my grave than living as a puppet or a slave.

  Jimmy Cliff

  Philosophy, Men, Liberty

  Song: The Bigger They Come The Harder They Fall, Album: The Harder They Come, 1972

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• There is a price tag on human liberty. That price is the willingness to assume the responsibilities of being free men. Payment of this price is a personal matter with each of us.

  James Monroe

  Responsibility, Men, Price Tag

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• The free man is the man with no fears.

  Dick Gregory

  Men, No Fear, He Man

  Dick Gregory (1968). “Write me in!”

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• All free men, wherever they may live, are citizens of Berlin. And therefore, as a free man, I take pride in the words 'Ich bin ein Berliner!'

  John F. Kennedy

  Patriotic, Pride, Men

  Remarks in Rudolf Wilde Platz,West Berlin, Germany, 26 June 1963.

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• The chains of a slave are broken the moment he considers himself a free man.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Men, Broken, Slavery

  Mahatma Gandhi, Mohandas Gandhi, Homer A. Jack (2005). “The Wit and Wisdom of Gandhi”, p.125, Courier Corporation

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• I am not a number, I am a free man!

  Patrick McGoohan

  Freedom, Men, Numbers

  "The Prisoner". TV Series, www.imdb.com. 1967 - 1968.

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• I, for one, resent it when a representative of the people refers to you and me, the free men and women of this country, as 'the masses.'

  Ronald Reagan

  Country, Men, People

  A Time for Choosing (aka "The Speech"), Air date 27 October 1964, Los Angeles, CA

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• The free man is a warrior.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Independent, Warrior, Men

  Friedrich Nietzsche (1977). “The Portable Nietzsche”, p.332, Penguin

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• Western civilization is based upon the libertarian principle, and all its achievements are the results of the action of free men.

  Ludwig von Mises

  Freedom, Men, Civilization

  Ludwig Von Mises, Murray Newton Rothbard (1980). “Planning for freedom, and sixteen other essays and addresses”, Libertarian Press, Incorporated

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• The highest type of free men should be sought where the highest resistance is constantly overcome: five steps from tyranny, close to the threshold of the danger of servitude.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Independent, Men, Overcoming

  Friedrich Nietzsche (1977). “The Portable Nietzsche”, p.332, Penguin

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• I want to go to my grave a free man. Surviving against giants-that's victory.

  Todd McFarlane

  Men, Survival, Victory

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• Free men set themselves free.

  James Oppenheim

  Freedom, Men

  James Oppenheim (1914). “Songs for the New Age”

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• He does not seem to me to be a free man who does not sometimes do nothing.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Men, Relaxation, Doe

  Marcus Tullius Cicero (1855). “Cicero on Oratory and Orators: With His Letters to Quintus and Brutus”, p.227

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• I am a free man, the slave of Christ.

  John F. MacArthur

  Men, Christ, Slave

  John F. MacArthur (2012). “Slave: The Hidden Truth About Your Identity in Christ”, p.13, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• The idea for which this nation stands will not survive if the highest goal free man can set themselves is an amiable mediocrity. Excellence implies striving for the highest standards in every phase of life.

  John W. Gardner

  Men, Ideas, Goal

  Dr. John W. Gardner (2015). “Excellence: Can We Be Equal And Excellent Too?”, p.171, Pickle Partners Publishing

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• But love is what we want, not freedom. Who then is the unluckier man? The beloved, who is given his heart's desire and must for ever after fear its loss, or the free man, with his unlooked-for liberty, naked and alone between the captive armies of the earth?

  Salman Rushdie

  Heart, Loss, Army

  Salman Rushdie (2000). “The Ground Beneath Her Feet: A Novel”, p.53, Macmillan

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• We rest; a dream has power to poison sleep. We rise; one wand'ring thought pollutes the day. We feel, conceive, or reason; laugh or weep, Embrace fond woe, or cast our cares away; It is the same: for, be it joy or sorrow, The path of its departure still is free. Man's yesterday may ne'er be like his morrow; Nought may endure but Mutability!

  Percy Bysshe Shelley

  Dream, Sleep, Men

  Percy Bysshe Shelley (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley (Illustrated)”, p.1701, Delphi Classics

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• Every generation has the obligation to free men's minds for a look at new worlds . . . to look out from a higher plateau than the last generation.

  Ellison Onizuka

  Responsibility, Men, Space

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• I always knew that someday I would once again feel the grass under my feet and walk in the sunshine as a free man.

  Nelson Mandela

  Positive, Sunshine, Men

  "Long Walk to Freedom". Book by Nelson Mandela, 1995.

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• We go into space because whatever mankind must undertake, free men must fully share.

  John F. Kennedy

  Men, Space, Apollo

  Speech to Congress on Urgent National Needs, delivered 25 May 1961, Washington, D.C.

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• To those privileged ones -- among whom we count ourselves -- the high-resounding "isms" to which their contemporaries ask them to give their allegiance are all equally futile: bound to be betrayed, defeated, and finally rejected by men at large, if containing anything really noble; bound to enjoy, for the time being, some sort of noisy success, if sufficiently vulgar, pretentious, and soul-killing to appeal to the growing number of mechanically conditioned slaves that crawl about our planet, posing as free men; all destined to prove, ultimately, of no avail.

  Savitri Devi

  Men, Numbers, Giving

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• Washington is dead! This great man fought against Tyranny; he established the liberty of his country. His memory will always be dear to the French people, as it will be to all free men of the two worlds; and especially to French soldiers, who, like him and the American soldiers, have combated for liberty and equality.

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  Country, Memories, Men

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• Every man, who parrots the cry of ‘stand by the President’ without adding the proviso ‘so far as he serves the Republic’ takes an attitude as essentially unmanly as that of any Stuart royalist who championed the doctrine that the King could do no wrong. No self-respecting and intelligent free man could take such an attitude.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Kings, Attitude, Intelligent

  Theodore Roosevelt (1918). “The Great Adventure: Present-day Studies in American Nationalism”, London : J. Murray

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• Good slaves are free, but bad free men are slaves of many passions.

  Bion of Borysthenes

  Passion, Men, Slave

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