The essence of a free government consists in an effectual control of rivalries.
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Cuba ought to be free and independent, and the government should be turned over to the Cuban people.
We are free today because we are the stronger we will be slaves again when the government becomes the stronger.
My mom used to call us 'free range kids,' like free range chickens... We roamed the countryside.
Man is not free unless government is limited.
I was who I was in high school in accordance with the rules of conduct for a normal person, like obeying your mom and dad. Then I got out of high school and moved out of the house, and I just started, for lack of a better term, running free.
I grew up in rural Pennsylvania, in a really rundown old house. I'd stay out till 8:30, 9:00 at night. Just blow in. My mom and dad never really cared much. It was okay. We were pretty free to roam. I mean, I had no concept of stopping play. It just didn't occur to anyone.
I grew up with my mom being very, very cheap, so when it's free, I'm like, 'Oh my God, it's free - I have to take as much as I can!'
My mom was a free spirit, and she brought me up to be a free spirit.
All of technology, really, is about maximizing free options.
If information wants to be free, then that's true everywhere, not just in information technology.
I'm very free with all my emotions, whether it's happy, sad, mad, glad, whatever.
It's a sad day when Republicans will attack fellow Republicans on an issue as fundamental as free enterprise.
You are almost not free, if you are teaching a group of graduate students, to become friends with one of them. I don't mean anything erotically charged, just a friendship.
I like Ronald Reagan, who didn't play crass politics, and he just articulated and delivered on broad themes that were needed. Free markets meant free markets. Deregulation. Lower tax rates. Strong national defense. And he was credible and believable.
Free speech is not to be regulated like diseased cattle and impure butter. The audience that hissed yesterday may applaud today, even for the same performance.
If you have embraced a creed which appears to be free from the ordinary dirtiness of politics - a creed from which you yourself cannot expect to draw any material advantage - surely that proves that you are in the right?
Those who write the editorials and those who write the columns, they simply are unaccountable. They're free to impose their cultural politics in the name of freedom of the press.