Top 100 Free Country Quotes
#1. America is still a free country - nobody is saying it isn't - but we accept that, in the face of discernible risk, or even imaginable risk, the government has an obligation to step in and save us.
Patrick Bedard
#2. You can't make me mad by calling me names that are true. Certainly I'm a rascal, and why not? It's a free country and a man may be a rascal if he chooses. It's only hypocrites like you, my dear lady, just as black at heart but trying to hide it, who becomes enraged when called by their right names.
Margaret Mitchell
#3. The cry has been that when war is declared, all opposition should be hushed. A sentiment more unworthy of a free country could hardly be propagated.
William Ellery Channing
#4. Dacca is now the free capital of a free country.
Indira Gandhi
#5. Wouldn't it be more of a free country," persisted Francie "if we could ride in them free?" "No." "Why?" "Because that would be Socialism," concluded Johnny triumphantly, "and we don't want that over here." "Why?" "Because we got democracy and that's the best thing there is," clinched Johnny.
Betty Smith
#6. This is a free country, madam. We have a right to share your privacy in a public place.
Peter Ustinov
#7. Crime is a human behavior problem, not a mechanical problem. Furthermore, if firearms were not very useful for self-defense, then police wouldn't carry them. In a free country, if the government can go armed, so should the citizens, if they so choose.
Charley Reese
#8. If it be the pleasure of Heaven that my country shall require the poor offering of my life, the victim shall be ready, at the appointed hour of sacrifice, come when that hour may. But while I do live, let me have a country, and that a free country!
John Adams
#9. There can never be a king in a free country of honourable people! Monarch, Kaiser, emperor, dictator, Caesar or shah, they all belong to the submissive and weak minded societies!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#10. [S]tatism is a system of institutionalized violence and perpetual civil war. It leaves men no choice but to fight to seize political power
to rob or be robbed, to kill or be killed ... Statism survives by looting; a free country survives by production.
Ayn Rand
#11. In a free country, government is a dull and onerous responsibility. It is a parent-teacher conference.
P. J. O'Rourke
#12. Libertarians know that a free country has nothing to fear from anyone coming in or going out - while a welfare state is scared to death of poor people coming in and rich people getting out.
Harry Browne
#13. No person is more convinced than I am of the necessity of giving great splendour and energy to the great hereditary magistracy exercised by the king; but in a free country, there can only be citizens and public officers.
Marquis De Lafayette
#14. This is a free country. Folks have a right to send me letters, and I have a right not to read them.
William Faulkner
#15. It's a free country." Inmates once bought this. That's why they're inmates.
Brian Spellman
#16. If he wants to be an asshole, it's a free country. Millions before him have made the same life choice.
Margaret Atwood
#17. I don't know that a political climate - as long as it's still a free country - makes much difference in the film world.
Mike Nichols
#18. If we're living in a free country,we should be free to do what we want to do if we're not hurting anyone else or their property. Why should I be incarcerated if I'm doing something that doesn't hurt anyone else?
Woody Harrelson
#19. I live in a free country. And I have so much more than I need.
Casey Johnson
#20. There is no more fundamental axiom of American freedom than the familiar statement: In a free country we punish men for the crimes they commit but never for the opinions they have.
Harry S. Truman
#21. Those who can serve best, those who help most, those who sacrifice most, those are the people who will be loved in life and honoured in death, when all questions of colour are swept away and when in a free country free citizens shall meet on equal grounds.
Annie Besant
#22. Most men, even in this comparatively free country, through mere ignorance and mistake, are so occupied with the factitious cares and superfluously coarse labors of life that its finer fruits cannot be plucked by them.
Henry David Thoreau
#23. A free country? they asked. You should live so long. What's free about it, they reasoned, when the law forces you to educate your children and then endangers their lives to get them into school?
Betty Smith
#24. Two things form the bedrock of any open society - freedom of expression and rule of law. If you don't have those things, you don't have a free country.
Salman Rushdie
#25. No free country has ever been without Parties, which are a natural offspring of freedom.
James Madison
#26. Venezuela is a free country, and we will not be blackmailed by anyone. We will not accept being told what to do over Iran; we will not accept being anyone's colony.
Hugo Chavez
#27. We, as citizens of a supposedly free country, should not permit our government to restrict any information that protects criminal activity under the guise of National Security.
Cathy O'Brien
#28. If we are a free country, we have the right to be free.
Bernie Sanders
#29. In a free country every man thinks he has a concern in all public matters,
that he has a right to form and a right to deliver an opinion on them. This it is that fills countries with men of ability in all stations.
Edmund Burke
#30. This is a free country...you can do almost anything you want.
John Grisham
#31. We want freedom for our country, but not at the expense or exploitation of others, not us to degrade other countries ... I want the freedom of my country so that other countries may learn something from my free country so that the resources of my country might be utilized for the benefit of mankind.
Lal Bahadur Shastri
#32. What a lie it is to call this a free country, where none but the unworthy and undeserving may swear.
Mark Twain
#33. I first came to Brazil in the Sixties. Then I started coming back every year since touring most of the country. I grew to love it, the people, the music. I thought this is where I belong. I've been living in Brazil for the past 23 years. I call it my stress-free country.
Dionne Warwick
#34. Between richer and poorer classes in a free country a mutually respecting antagonism is much healthier than pity on the one hand and dependence on the other, as is, perhaps, the next best thing to fraternal feeling.
Charles Horton Cooley
#35. Each side takes the position of the man who was arrested for swinging his arms and hitting another in the nose, and asked the judge if he did not have a right to swing his arms in a free country. 'Your right to swing your arms ends just where the other man's nose begins.
Zechariah Chafee
#36. To blend, without coercion, the individual good and the common good is the essence of citizenship in a free country.
Dwight D. Eisenhower
#37. We will not allow anyone to perform any terrorist acts inside or from Afghanistan against anyone. We are a free country where Osama is living as a guest. This is the reality and it is up to the world to accept it.
Mohammad Rabbani
#38. What citizens of a free country would listen to any offers of good and skillful administration in return for the abdication of freedom?
John Stuart Mill
#39. A well regulated militia, composed of the body of the people, trained in arms, is the best most natural defense of a free country.
James Madison
#40. If you're demanding a rodeo jester be thrown in the dungeons for mocking the king, don't pretend you support a free country.
Steve Stockman
#41. Americans, both politicians and voters, may have become corrupted by big government beyond redemption. A virtuous government requires a virtuous people. A frugal government requires a self-reliant people. A free country requires people who value liberty more than money.
Charley Reese
#42. Every American is free to do anything at all here in this supposedly great free country. Why don't they use their freedom and liberty to pursue happiness?
Matthew Quick
#43. Why, in our 'free' country, do Americans meekly stand aside and let the state limit our choices, even when we are dying?
John Stossel
#44. In a free country there is much clamor, with little suffering; in a despotic state there is little complaint, with much grievance.
Lazare Carnot
#45. It is important, likewise, that the habits of thinking in a free Country should inspire caution in those entrusted with its administration, to confine themselves within their respective Constitutional spheres; avoiding in the exercise of the Powers of one department to encroach upon another.
George Washington
#46. We live in a free country. While patriotism is important, liberty of thought and liberty of expression are even more important.
James Green
#47. You just think we live in a free country, Everett. We are at the mercy of greed and the selfish pursuit of wealth.
D.J. Israel
#48. For your information, I'm staying like this, and everyone else can just get used to it! If people don't like me the way I am, well TOUGH BEANS! It's a free country! I don't need anyone's permission to be the way I want! This is who I am - Take it or leave it!
Bill Watterson
#49. You can always judge a man by what he eats, and therefore a country in which there is no free lunch is no longer a free country.
Arthur Baer
#50. It was never assumed in the United States that the citizen of a free country has a right to do whatever he pleases; on the contrary, social obligations were there imposed upon him more various than anywhere else.
Alexis De Tocqueville
#51. Let me give you my vision: A man's right to work as he will, to spend what he earns, to own property, to have the state as servant and not as master. These are the British inheritance. They are the essence of a free country, and on that freedom all of our other freedoms depend.
Margaret Thatcher
#52. People only mention it's a free country if they're doing something shitty.
Demetri Martin
#53. Fair enough." I managed a nod. "Still, you shouldn't be up here." "It's a free country." "It's a capitalist country and this is private property.
Andrea Cremer
#54. Nothing distinguishes more clearly conditions in a free country from those in a country under arbitrary government than the observance in the former of the great principles known as the Rule of Law.
Friedrich August Von Hayek
#55. For a free country to continue thriving, there have to be regular reforms, because any society, any economy that stays in place, you're going to see repeated attempts to exploit the openings for twisting policy to the advantage of those who already have wealth and power.
Al Gore
#57. If grownups want to dress in Tudor costume, douse babies in water, intone over the dead and do strange things with wine and wafers, it is a free country. But for a Christian sect to claim ownership of the legal definition of a human relationship is way out of order.
Simon Jenkins
#58. This is a free country, and nobody should be criticized for their political beliefs. We're all allowed to have our opinions.
Shannen Doherty
#59. This is a free country, and to each their own.
Olivia Culpo
#60. In a free country it is the duty of writers to pay no attention to duty. Only under a dictatorship is literature expected to exhibit an harmonious design or an inspirational tone.
E.B. White
#61. Statism needs war; a free country does not. Statism survives by looting; a free country survives by producing.
Ayn Rand
#62. My definition of a leader in a free country is a man who can persuade people to do what they don't want to do, or do what they're too lazy to do, and like it.
Harry Truman
#63. Every boy in a free country ought to be instructed in boxing, wrestling, and the use of weapons. Every young man ought to be drilled. Every householder ought, at least, to have a right to own a rifle, and should know how to make cartridges.
John Boyle O'Reilly
#64. Russia is certainly no longer a free country. We are moving in the direction of Zimbabwe.
Andrey Illarionov
#65. It's not possible in a free country to completely control the border without us losing our freedoms and liberties.
Jeb Bush
#66. Obamacare comes to more than two thousand pages of rules, mandates, taxes, fees, and fines that have no place in a free country.
Paul Ryan
#68. Adults in a free country should be able to smoke a joint if they want to.
Roseanne Barr
#69. We live in a country that talks about being the home of the brave and the land of the free, and we have the highest incarceration rate in the world.
Bryan Stevenson
#70. I am sometimes accused of being a dictator because I provoked the extraordinary elections by nominating the interim government. Can you imagine any dictator who provokes free elections in his own country?
Milos Zeman
#71. The American flag, Old Glory, standing tall and flying free over American soil for 228 years is the symbol of our beloved country. It is recognized from near and afar, and many lives have been lost defending it.
Jeff Miller
#72. But you can live in the most democratic country on earth, and if you're lazy, obtuse or servile within yourself, you're not free.
Ignazio Silone
#73. I wrote a book on grace, and grace is a free gift, but to receive the gift you have to have your hands open. And a lot of people don't have their hands open, there's something they're grasping because there's a lot of things to grasp in a prosperous country.
Philip Yancey
#74. I was only fifteen when I finished my high-school studies, always having held first rank in my class. The fatigue of growth and study compelled me to take almost a year's rest in the country. I then returned to my father in Warsaw, hoping to teach in the free schools.
Marie Curie
#75. It is the prime responsibility of every citizen to feel that his country is free and to defend its freedom is his duty. Every Indian should now forget that he is a Rajput, a Sikh or a Jat. He must remember that he is an Indian and he has every right in this country but with certain duties.
Vallabhbhai Patel
#76. Probably no other country in the 1920s - certainly not the United States, with its stark repression of the Left, vicious antiunion policies, and legally enshrined racism - had so wide a range of free speech, such a vital public sphere, as Germany.
Eric D. Weitz
#77. My stiffest earthly assignment is ended and my major life's work is done. My country is now free and I have been honoured to be its first indigenous head of state. What more could one desire in life?
Nnamdi Azikiwe
#78. [Political] conventions lend themselves to pandering, as few politicians can resist the temptation to tell a national television audience how well they will run the country if elected. The problem is that government is not supposed to run the country - we're supposed to be free.
Ron Paul
#79. Again I admonish you not to be turned from your stern purpose of defending your beloved country and its free institutions by any arguments urged by ambitious and designing men, but stand fast to the Union and the old flag.
Abraham Lincoln
#80. It is not the right angle that attracts me, nor the straight line, hard and inflexible, created by man. What attracts me is the free and sensual curve - the curve that I find in the mountains of my country, in the sinuous course of its rivers, in the body of the beloved woman.
Oscar Niemeyer
#81. If we go to the white man for school ,we will learn the way the white man wants us to learn. We will come back and build the country the white man wants us to build. One that continues to serve them. We will never be free.
Yaa Gyasi
#82. There's not a single country that actually approaches economics in a pure, free market, capitalist way. I like the free market - but it very much exists only in textbooks. If I had a choice, and we could live in a very pure world, I would be a supporter of the free markets.
Dambisa Moyo
#83. We are, in many respects, in a moral and spiritual free-fall in our country, and we are paying a terrible price.
Joel C. Rosenberg
#84. Less than five hundred people run this country and those who hand out the most free stuff get elected.
Thomas A. Watson
#85. Technology is probably the single biggest driver of productivity gains for the developed countries. For example, I think it's much more important than free trade.
Peter Thiel
#86. They say that this country is free, and they say that this country is equal, but it is not equal if it's 'sometimes' ... We need change now. We demand actions now.
Lady Gaga
#87. Evaluating countries is senseless and I would never put things in those terms, but that some of America's advances, particularly in the area of free speech, that have been achieved by centuries of popular struggle, are to be admired.
Noam Chomsky
#88. When men know they cannot hope in a country, in a political belief, or in themselves, they become free to hope in God.
Randy Alcorn
#89. During the summer of 2009, the debate on health care reform was emotional and intense. At its best, it represented the free exchange of ideas that makes this country great. At its worst, it generated death threats and acts of violence.
Chellie Pingree
#90. That there is little hope of international order or lasting peace so long as every country is free to employ whatever measures it thinks desirable in its own immediate interest, however damaging they may be to others, needs little emphasis now.
Friedrich August Von Hayek
#91. God desires to free our country from darkness through our active civil position.
Sunday Adelaja
#92. Character assassination is at once easier and surer than physical assault; and it involves far less risk for the assassin. It leaves him free to commit the same deed over and over again, and may, indeed, win him the honors of a hero in the country of his victims.
Alan Barth
#93. No errors of opinion can possibly be dangerous in a country where opinion is left free to grapple with them.
William Gilmore Simms
#94. I dream of a free, democratic, peaceful Tunisia, a country that can protect its developing identity.
Rashid Al-Ghannushi
#95. The reaper can be produced only in countries where labor receives a high reward, where farmers own their own acres without fear of being despoiled by invading armies, where average of intelligence is as high in the country as in the city.
Herbert Newton Casson
#96. No country is 100 percent free of human rights abuses.
Raul Castro
#97. Every single one of us as Americans need to remember that freedom did not come free, as we get on our knees tonight, thank God we live in a country where people are trying to break into, and not a country people are trying to break out of.
Mike Huckabee
#98. Force is the only language the imperialists can hear, and no country became free without some sort of violence.
Nelson Mandela
#99. We Americans can be rightly proud of the fact that the right to the free and unfettered exercise of religion is a primary principle in the vision and founding of our country. It defines us as a people, and has uniquely contributed to making this nation great.
Salvatore J. Cordileone
#100. I hope our people hold tight to the notion that we do not have to be a fear-ridden country focused on restrictions, but rather that we remain the land of the free and home of the brave.
Taya Kyle
