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Bondage is of the mind; freedom too is of the mind. If you say 'I am a free soul. I am a son of God who can bind me' free you shall be.
Ramakrishna

God, Freedom, Mind

Love is free; to promise for ever to love the same woman is not less absurd than to promise to believe the same creed; such a vow in both cases excludes us from all inquiry.
Percy Bysshe Shelley

Love, Woman, Same

The Framers of the Constitution knew that free speech is the friend of change and revolution. But they also knew that it is always the deadliest enemy of tyranny.
Hugo Black

Change, Enemy, Friend

Smile, it's free therapy.
Douglas Horton

Hapiness can only be found if you can free yourself of all other distractions.
Saul Bellow

Yourself, Found

Democracy is a process by which people are free to choose the man who will get the blame.
Laurence J. Peter

Democracy, Blame, Process

Once you depart from the Ten Commandments as being the foundation of right and wrong, you are in a free fall.
Randall Terry

Wrong, Once, Fall

It I talked about Watergate, I was described as struggling to free myself from the morass. If I did not talk about Watergate, I was accused of being out of touch with reality.
Richard M. Nixon

Reality, Talk, Touch

Free enterprise empowers entrepreneurs who have ideas and imagination, investors who take risks, and workers who hone their skills and offer their labor.
Paul Ryan

Ideas, Labor, Skills

I am an artist, and I have the ability and the free will to choose the way the world will envision me.
Lady Gaga

Artist, Choose, Ability

The one woman who never gives herself is your free woman, who is always giving herself.
David Herbert Lawrence

Woman, Giving, Herself

Free speech is the whole thing, the whole ball game. Free speech is life itself.
Salman Rushdie

Life, Game, Whole

One day I realized that I wasn't getting anywhere by blaming other people for my circumstances. I finally understood: Even if you feel someone has wronged you or owes you something, no one is going to give you anything for free.
Mary J. Blige

Someone, Give, Getting

For myself I hold no preferences among flowers, so long as they are wild, free, spontaneous. Bricks to all greenhouses! Black thumb and cutworm to the potted plant!
Edward Abbey

Long, Black, Flowers

I think people should be free to engage in any sexual practices they choose; they should draw the line at goats though.
Elton John

Though, Choose, Line

Birds have wings; they're free; they can fly where they want when they want. They have the kind of mobility many people envy.
Roger Tory Peterson

Envy, Fly, Birds

Man, so long as he remains free, has no more constant and agonizing anxiety than find as quickly as possible someone to worship.
Fyodor Dostoevsky

Long, Someone, Find

Man was born free, and he is everywhere in chains.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Born, Chains, Everywhere

I learned a good deal about economics, and about America, from the author of the Reagan tax reforms - the great Jack Kemp. What gave Jack that incredible enthusiasm was his belief in the possibilities of free people, in the power of free enterprise and strong communities to overcome poverty and despair. We need that same optimism right now.
Paul Ryan

Good, Great, Power

Driving a motorcycle is like flying. All your senses are alive. When I ride through Beverly Hills in the early morning, and all the sprinklers have turned off, the scents that wash over me are just heavenly. Being House is like flying, too. You're free of the gravity of what people think.
Hugh Laurie

Morning, Through, Off

The moon and other celestial bodies should be free for exploration and use by all countries. No country should be permitted to advance a claim of sovereignty.
Lyndon B. Johnson

Country, Moon, Countries

I'm free. I just do what I want, say what I want, say how I feel, and I don't try to hurt nobody. I just try to make sure that I don't compromise my art in any kind of way, and I think people respect that.
Erykah Badu

Art, Respect, Hurt

We have to hate our immediate predecessors to get free of their authority.
David Herbert Lawrence

Hate, Authority, Immediate

Too much free time is certainly a monkey's paw in disguise. Most people can't handle a structureless life.
Doug Coupland

Life, Time, Monkey

America lives in the heart of every man everywhere who wishes to find a region where he will be free to work out his destiny as he chooses.
Woodrow Wilson

Work, Heart, Find

If it were possible to have a life absolutely free from every feeling of sin, what a terrifying vacuum it would be.
Cesare Pavese

Life, Feeling, Possible

For know that no one is free, except Zeus.
Aeschylus

The pursuit of truth will set you free; even if you never catch up with it.
Clarence Darrow

Truth, Catch, Pursuit

I expect nothing. I fear no one. I am free.
Nikos Kazantzakis

Fear, Nothing, Expect

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Free people, remember this maxim: we may acquire liberty, but it is never recovered if it is once lost.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Lost, May, Remember

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