The essence of a free government consists in an effectual control of rivalries.
John Adams

I'm free of all prejudices. I hate everyone equally.
W. C. Fields

Writing free verse is like playing tennis with the net down.
Robert Frost

There are many ways to be free. One of them is to transcend reality by imagination, as I try to do.
Anais Nin

I like to be a free spirit. Some don't like that, but that's the way I am.
Princess Diana

I could, as a free man, look across the bay toward the Eastern Shore where I was born a slave.
Frederick Douglass

To suppress free speech is a double wrong. It violates the rights of the hearer as well as those of the speaker.
Frederick Douglass

There's no such thing as a free lunch.
Milton Friedman

A major source of objection to a free economy is precisely that group thinks they ought to want. Underlying most arguments against the free market is a lack of belief in freedom itself.
Milton Friedman

The most important single central fact about a free market is that no exchange takes place unless both parties benefit.
Milton Friedman

The only way that has ever been discovered to have a lot of people cooperate together voluntarily is through the free market. And that's why it's so essential to preserving individual freedom.
Milton Friedman

The black market was a way of getting around government controls. It was a way of enabling the free market to work. It was a way of opening up, enabling people.
Milton Friedman

So that the record of history is absolutely crystal clear. That there is no alternative way, so far discovered, of improving the lot of the ordinary people that can hold a candle to the productive activities that are unleashed by a free enterprise system.
Milton Friedman

Underlying most arguments against the free market is a lack of belief in freedom itself.
Milton Friedman

You are always free to change your mind and choose a different future, or a different past.
Richard Bach

In order to live free and happily you must sacrifice boredom. It is not always an easy sacrifice.
Richard Bach

I'm William Wallace, and the rest of you will be spared. Go back to England and tell them... Scotland is free!
William Wallace

I believe that it is better to tell the truth than a lie. I believe it is better to be free than to be a slave. And I believe it is better to know than to be ignorant.
H. L. Mencken

Giving every man a vote has no more made men wise and free than Christianity has made them good.
H. L. Mencken

There's not an American in this country free until every one of us is free.
Jackie Robinson