The family is the test of freedom; because the family is the only thing that the free man makes for himself and by himself.
Gilbert K. Chesterton

Do not free a camel of the burden of his hump; you may be freeing him from being a camel.
Gilbert K. Chesterton

I only ask to be free. The butterflies are free.
Charles Dickens

There are incalculable resources in the human spirit, once it has been set free.
Hubert H. Humphrey

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

He who is brave is free.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca

He does not seem to me to be a free man who does not sometimes do nothing.
Marcus Tullius Cicero

The magistrates are the ministers for the laws, the judges their interpreters, the rest of us are servants of the law, that we all may be free.
Marcus Tullius Cicero

How does the Meadow flower its bloom unfold? Because the lovely little flower is free down to its root, and in that freedom bold.
William Wordsworth

As a celebrity, you get a certain number of free passes. You're actually in a better position if you're a celebrity because people care.
Joyce Brothers

Decision is a risk rooted in the courage of being free.
Paul Tillich

Man is born free, and everywhere he is in shackles.
Jean Jacques Rousseau

The English think they are free. They are free only during the election of members of parliament.
Jean Jacques Rousseau

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

It's our money, and we're free to spend it any way we please.
Rose Kennedy

A dissenting minority feels free only when it can impose its will on the majority: what it abominates most is the dissent of the majority.
Eric Hoffer

When people are free to do as they please, they usually imitate each other.
Eric Hoffer

We feel free when we escape - even if it be but from the frying pan to the fire.
Eric Hoffer

Birds sing after a storm; why shouldn't people feel as free to delight in whatever remains to them?
Rose Kennedy