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“The free trade agreement that we will have to do with the European Union should be one of the easiest in human history.../ /....The only reason that we wouldn’t come to a free and open agreement is because politics gets in the way of economics.”
Liam Fox (born 1961) first seen 2017 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: BBC Today programme (20 July 2017)
“The US is sort of the flag-bearer for capitalism and free markets, the US continues to be a very important part of a global industry that is interconnected, that is dealing with a fungible commodity which is crude oil. So having equalisation through free trade is very healthy for oil.”
Khalid A. Al-Falih (born 1959) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“More than all, the citizen and his representative in Congress in time of war must maintain his right of free speech. More than in times of peace it is necessary that the channels for free public discussion of governmental policies shall be open and unclogged.”
Robert M. La Follette Sr. (1855–1925) said by 1925 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The woman who has sprung free has emotional mobility. She is able to move toward the things that are satisfying to her and away from those that are not. She is free, also, to succeed.”
Colette Dowling (born 1938) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“At least they thought they were fighting the system, they were trying to create transparency, they really thought they were for free speech. You people are openly and completely against it – you’re not fighting for free speech, you’re not fighting for rights, you’re fighting for the right to be a pussy and to not hear opinions that you don’t like!”
Steven Crowder (born 1987) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Taxation is by definition legalized robbery. Clearly, it is initiated coercion. As such, no Objectivist can in good conscience support it. So, naturally, most of them don't. Ayn Rand, in her essay in The Virtue of Selfishness entitled "Government Financing in a Free Society," states emphatically that the financing of the state in a free society would be voluntary. But can it be?”
Roy Childs (1949–1992) said by 1992 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“It's not us that loses financially if we don't have a free trade agreement, it's Germany and France and other European countries, and that's why of course there will be a free trade agreement that allows all our business to trade freely to and from continental Europe. It will take a relatively short period time in my view because they lose financially.”
Chris Grayling (born 1962) first seen 2016 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Interviewed on Sunday Politics London (21 February 2016)
“How anyone can look at the ongoing collapse of the USA due to its evil policies of mass immigration, free trade, and free speech and conclude that the failing state provides a functional model worthy of imitation, much less an ideal model that morally requires installation by force, completely mystifies me.”
Vox Day (born 1968) first seen 2021 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Theodore Beale, Independence is Not Imperialism, Vox Popoli, 6 November 2021
“The right to own is the mark of a free man. The slave is a slave simply because he is denied that right. And because the free man is secure in the possession and enjoyment of what he produces, and the slave is not, the spur to production is in one and not in the other.”
Frank Chodorov (1887–1966) said by 1966 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“There is no such thing as free schooling; it must be paid for and, taking the school system as a whole, its cost is defrayed by the toil of those who are under the delusion of ‘free’ education.”
Frank Chodorov (1887–1966) said by 1966 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Free trade or political economy is the science of free society, and socialism is the science of slavery.”
George Fitzhugh (1806–1881) said by 1881 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“With thinking men, the question can never arise, who ought to be free? Because no one ought to be free. All government is slavery.”
George Fitzhugh (1806–1881) said by 1881 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“What is falsely called Free Society, is a very recent invention. It purposes to make the weak, ignorant and poor, free, by turning them loose in a world owned exclusively by the few.”
George Fitzhugh (1806–1881) said by 1881 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Quite simply, a free press promotes peace; creating a universally free press would promote universal peace. The bridge between the two is democracy.”
Rudolph Rummel (1932–2014) first seen 1989 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Freedom of the press—a way to peace,” ASNE Bulletin (February 1989), p. 27. ASNE stands for the American Association of Newspaper Editors
“People should not be free only because it is good for them. They should be free because it is their right as human beings.”
Rudolph Rummel (1932–2014) said by 2014 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Going into this system means you cannot be against it. It's good to keep a non-governmental free organisation without money from the government, and without having to play the political games. Just to be free and to have the possibility to discuss and control each decision of the from the streets... It's the best and most powerful place to be.”
Oksana Shachko (1987–2018) said by 2018 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Reverence for free speech is deeply embedded in American life, but speech cannot be protected unless those who acknowledge its value set aside their partisan differences for a moment and trust one another enough to say that the outrages against free speech must end.”
Allen C. Guelzo (born 1953) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“We are either all equally free, or we are not free.”
Alan Charles Kors (born 1943) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“What gives me grounds for optimism is that this is the only country on the face of the Earth where if you tell a 10-year-old kid, "You can't do" something and it strikes him as absurd, a 10-year-old kid looks up and says "It's a free country." This is the only nation on Earth whose children say "It's a free country." It's going to take a whole lot to root that out of the American spirit.”
Alan Charles Kors (born 1943) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Blacks got federal passports implying that they were citizens... The Articles of Confederation stated that "the free inhabitants of these states... shall be entitled to all privileges of immunities of free citizens in the several states", Congress voted down South Carolina's proposal to insert the word "white" into this clause.”
Thomas G. West (born 1945) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“You and I are One — Whoever, whatever, wherever you are, tread the divine water of cleanliness which is detachment. I have not come to teach you anything new. Be honest to yourself, sincere to yourself, and be detached. This method is so simple, so sweet, it is free from religions, ideologies, politics. It makes one experience who one is. Fulfill your role, yet be free.”
Benjamin Creme (1922–2016) said by 2016 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“What can be done to free humanity from this ancient thraldom, in part innate in the nature of substance itself? How can man free himself from wrong identification and the tyranny of his self-created thoughtforms? The answer lies in a shift of focus, from the self to the group; in a truer identification with the soul and its relation to all souls.”
Benjamin Creme (1922–2016) said by 2016 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Man is divine. He is also human and he has free will. And he is given the chance to exert that free will.”
Benjamin Creme (1922–2016) said by 2016 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Feminists—in and out of science—often condemn masculine bias in the sciences from the vantage point of commitment to a value-free science. Androcentric bias, once identified, can then be seen as a violation of the rules, as "bad" science. Feminist science, by contrast, can eliminate that bias and produce better, good, more true, or gender-free science.”
Helen Longino (born 1944) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“There is no such thing as having both a free society, and a drug-free society. Put another way, dangerous as they are, these drugs are here to stay, and we should work to discover how best to reduce the harm they will cause in our communities.”
James P. Gray (born 1945) first seen 2001 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: California Lawyer, “Just Say No,” (April 2001) pp. 52-55
“Most transactions have an upside and a downside, but when something is FREE! we forget the downside. FREE! gives us such an emotional charge that we perceive what is being offered as immensely more valuable than it really is. Why? I think it's because humans are intrinsically afraid of loss”
Dan Ariely (born 1967) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The message that really pisses me off is like, "Well, women in the Middle East are getting their genitalia cut, so you should just shut up." That is completely wrong. The point is we're not all truly free until we're all free, and the women who have mouthpieces need to speak up for the women in other places, and for men too.”
MILCK (born 1986) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“We have twenty thousand sites where people can go, and I urge people to, you can Google it or go onto any search engine and find out where free testing and the free testing site is available.”
Kamala Harris (born 1964) first seen 2022 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: 13 January 2022
“The idea of schooling free men in anything would have revolted Athenians. Forced training was for slaves. Among free men, learning was self-discipline, not the gift of experts.”
John Taylor Gatto (1935–2018) said by 2018 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The Government (Volksraad) of the Orange Free State, which is much smaller than that of the other states, are determined to uplift the standard of education in the Orange Free State to the same level of other wealthier states.”
Marthinus Theunis Steyn (1857–1916) said by 1916 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The church shall be catholic, chaste and free: catholic in faith and the communion of saints, chaste from all contagion of evil, and free from all secular power.”
Pope Urban II (1035–1099) first seen 1050 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Decree, also quoted in Colin Morris, The Papal Monarchy: The Western Church from 1050 to 1250 (1991), p. 125
“We are truly a free country. This is a real fact. I can imagine the types of reaction to my words from different corners, but I can prove that Russia today is the true leader of the free world. We are developing in accordance with our own path and, by God’s will, our path shall be successful.”
Patriarch Kirill of Moscow (born 1946) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I believe that one is only truly free when learning, and one can only learn when one is free.”
Peter Fonda (1940–2019) first seen 2019 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Autobiographical note on his official website; also quoted in "Remembering Peter Fonda: Jane Fonda Says 'He Was My Sweet-Hearted Baby Brother' + Other Celebrity Reactions" in Parade (17 August 2019)
“I don't think Donald Trump should be allowed within 1,000 miles of our shores....Donald Trump is free to be a fool but he is not free to be a dangerous fool in Britain.”
Jack Dromey (1948–2022) first seen 2016 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Said before Trump's visit to the UK in 2016. Quoted by the BBC. Donald Trump debate: Ban risks making tycoon a 'martyr'
“Accrding the the 6-month ensemble forecast created by the U.S. Naval Postgraduate School, and ice-free Arctic Ocean will not occur this year. ...[T]his was the same group of professors who incorrectly projected an ice-free Arctic Ocean to occur in 2016, plus or minus 3 years. So they are being very conservative.”
Guy McPherson (born 1960) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I had early experience experiences which are shared by millions of native-born Negroes — the bitter indignity and humiliation of second-class citizenship, the special status which makes a mockery of our Government’s prated claims of a “free America” in a “free world” for 15 million Negro Americans.”
Claudia Jones (1915–1964) said by 1964 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“A free-market is the only way to control corporations! As long as government has the power to regulate business, business will control government by funding the candidate that legislates in their favor. A free-market thwarts lobbying by taking the power that corporations seek away from government!”
Mary Ruwart (born 1949) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“# To know the emptiness of objects is to know emptiness free of appearance and free of coverings. That is the Middle Way from which the "subsequent" or conventional has been purged.”
Marpa Lotsawa (1012–1097) said by 1097 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: The Madhyamasatka of Metri,The Tibetan and Himalayan Library, Adyar. Library Bulletin vol. 25, pp. 539-49. (1961)
“...children are our treasures. They hold the promise of the future and therefore, it is only right that they should be given every opportunity to develop their physical, mental and spiritual potential to the fullest extent in an environment free of want and free of fear...”
Jigme Singye Wangchuck (born 1955) first seen 1979 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Message during the international year of the child, 28 July 1979, quoted in The Talking Mountains (26 Oct 2015)
“Why would I leave it. Because I was not comfortable. Because I realized the time has come where I could not take instructions... I could no longer be free... I was not absolutely free.”
Arnab Goswami (born 1973) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“It may be boasted that free-trade in physic came before free-trade in corn, and from that time medical science began to flourish in this country.”
Thomas Gordon Hake (1809–1895) said by 1895 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Some claim I "profit" personally from volunteering for sea rescue. Here's how I profit: By knowing that stepping up for the human rights of others I am ultimately defending everybody's rights - incl my own. No one is free until we are all free. #BlackLifesMatter”
Carola Rackete (born 1988) first seen 2020 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Twitter (2 June 2020)
“The boys have been holding Laois back for years with hurling and football. There is no point in fucking having absolute stooks in there and all they are doing it for is their free jackets and their free entry into the matches and they going around scratching their hole when they have absolutely no ambition for the good of the county.”
Eddie Brennan (born 1978) first seen 2020 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: November 2020 comments on Gaelic games administrative officials that quickly went viral. Brennan exited as Laois senior hurling manager shortly afterwards.
“The bottom line is that in a free market, any employer who discriminates on grounds that have nothing to do with productivity will pay a cost for doing so. The economic system that removes the props from racism is free markets.”
David R. Henderson (born 1950) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“And since it is patently impossible to free people who not only don’t want to be free but who will emphatically insist they are not oppressed, I am through trying. I have had my last argument with your straight Sisters as to whether men or ‘the system’ are the oppressor. If you choose to think ‘the system’ runs by remote control from the planet Pluto, then more power to you. p. 117”
Anita Cornwell (1923–2023) said by 2023 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“A long time ago, a sports reporter wrote that I wasn’t strong in the free-skate, that I was more of a short program skater. And that bothered me because I work so hard every day just for a person to judge me on a couple of bad skates and deem me a bad free skater. That's absurd!”
Mirai Nagasu (born 1993) first seen 2018 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: As quoted in Figure Skater Mirai Nagasu on Asian American Stereotypes, Her Reputation, and Breaking U.S. Olympic Records in Cosmopolitan (February 16, 2018)
“We all benefit when we stamp out injustice. We are all healthier when reproductive care is available to our communities. We are all free only if we are all free.”
Michelle Wu (born 1985) first seen 2022 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: 24 June 2022 "Boston Mayor Michelle Wu says overturning Roe v. Wade will 'ruin lives'
“We hail our glorious fatherland from now on definitively rid of the slavery of foreign domination and the scourge of partition. We hail the beautiful land of Vietnam from Lạng Sơn to the Cape of Cà Mau, from now on completely independent and free, and independent and free forever.”
Lê Duẩn (1907–1986) said by 1986 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Those of us who work in the international trade area, we can tell you that … everybody believes in free trade, but it has to be free in both directions.”
Corey Stewart (born 1968) first seen 2018 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Corey Stewart Slams NAFTA After Visit to Danville (28 Jul 2018)
“In Korea, to step down from the presidency is to step down from politics. But I thought about what it means to step down. I hope that means a free man. From even before I entered politics, all I wanted was to be a free man. Another thing is that I will now be able to watch the news on TV with peace of mind.”
Roh Moo-hyun (1946–2009) first seen 2007 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Interview with South Korean President Roh Moo-hyun" in CNN (10 December 2007)