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I am a free man, I do not need to copy Petrarch or Boccaccio. My own genius is enough. Let others worry themselves about style and so cease to be themselves. Without a master, without a model, without a guide, without artifice,Igotowork and earnmy living, my well- being, and my fame.What do Ineedmore? Witha goose quill and a few sheets of paper I mock the universe.
Others abide our question. Thou art free. We ask and ask:Thou smilest and art still, Out-topping knowledge.
In the deserts of the heart Let the healing fountain start, In the prison of his days Teach the free man how to praise.
Was he free? Was he happy? The question is absurd: Had anything been wrong, we should certainly have heard.
Freedom is not something that anybody can be given; freedomissomething peopletakeand peopleareasfree as they want to be.
A man is either free or he is not. There cannot be any apprenticeship for freedom.
Homme libre, toujours tu che riras la mer. Free man! You shall always cherish the sea.
Land of Hope and Glory, Mother of the Free, How shall we extol thee who are born of thee? Wider still and wider shall thy bounds be set; God who made thee mighty, make thee mightier yet.
Create in me a clean heart,O God; and renew a right spirit within me.Cast me not away from thy presence; and take not thy holy spirit from me.Restore unto methe joy of thy salvation; and uphold me with thy free spirit. Thenwill Iteachtransgressorsthy ways; and sinnersshall be converted unto thee.
And ye shall know thetruth, and thetruth shall make you free.
If the Son therefore shall make you free, ye shall be free indeed.
The chief captain answered,With a great sum obtained I this freedom. And Paul said,But I was free born.
There isneither Jew nor Greek, there isneither bond nor free, there isneither malenor female: for yeareall onein Christ Jesus. 122
With proud thanksgiving, a mother for her children, England mourns for her dead across the sea. Flesh of her flesh they were, spirit of her spirit, Fallen in the cause of the free.
It's ironical that the first people to demand free speech are the first people to deny it to others.
So free we seem, so fretted fast we are!
See, free nations are peaceful nations.Free nations don't attack each other. Free nations don't develop weapons of mass destruction.
Hereditary bondsmen! know ye not Who would be free themselves must strike the blow?
Give me a lover bold and free, Not eunuched with formality.
The creation of music is just as natural as the air we breathe.I believemusic isreallya freething, and any way you can enjoy it, you should.
Sagest in the council was he, kindest in the hall: Sure we never won a battle'twas Owen won them all. Had he lived, had he lived, our dear country had been free; But he's dead, but he's dead, and 'tis slaves we'll ever be.
Take me toYou, imprison me, for I, Except You enthrall me, never shall be free, Nor ever chaste, except You ravish me.
So long as man remains free he strives for nothing so incessantly and so painfully as to find someone to worship.
Since there's no help, come let us kiss and part; Nay, I have done, you get no more of me, And I am glad, yea glad with all my heart That thus so cleanly I myself can free; Shake hands forever, cancel all our vows, And when we meet at any time again, Be it not seen in either of our brows That we one jot of former love retain.
I am as free as nature first made man, Ere the base laws of servitude began, When wild in woods the noble savage ran.
Either be wholly slaves or wholly free.
Intellectually, most people never wash. They never free their minds of the accumulated rubbish of centuries.
I would be a falcon and go free. I tread her wrist and wear the hood, Talking to myself, and would draw blood.
Our life is determined for usand it makes the mind very free when we give up wishing and only thinkof bearing what islaid uponus and doing what isgivenusto do.
Have I a lover Who is noble and free? I would he were nobler Than to love me.
The society that will organize production on the basis of a free and equal association of the producers will put the whole machinery of the state where it will then belong: into the museum of antiquities, by the side of the spinning wheel and the bronze axe.
There is no such thing as a free lunch.
Writing free verse is like playing tennis with the net down.
Away with the music of Broadway! Be off with your Irving Berlin! Oh, I'd give no quarter to Kern or Cole Porter and Gershwin keeps pounding on tin. How can I be civil when hearing this drivel? It's only for night-clubbing souses. Oh, give me the free 'n'easy waltz that is Viennesey And go tell the band if they want a hand the waltz must be Strauss's!
The principles of a free constitution are irrevocably lost when the legislative power is nominated by the executive.
The free lunch has still to be invented.
Es binden Sklavenfesseln nur die H a« nde, Der Sinn, er macht den Freien und den Knecht. The chains of slavery can only bind the hands. The mind makes us either free or enslaved.
'Cause some make forfeit of their name, And slave themselves to man's desire; Shall the sex free From guilt, damn'd to the bondage be?
I struck the board, and cried,'No more. I will abroad.' What? shall I ever sigh and pine? My lines and life are free; free as the road, Loose as the wind, as large as store.
Go happy rose, and interwove With other flowers, bind my love. Tell her too, she must not be, Longer flowing, longer free, That so oft has fetter'd me.
A Free Man is he, that in those things, which by his strength and wit he is able to do, is not hindered to do what he has a will to.
Historians spend their lives and lavish ink Explaining how great commonwealths collapse From great defects of policyperhaps The cause is sometimes simpler than they think. Have more states perished, then, For having shackled the enquiring mind, Than those who, in their folly not less blind, Trusted the servile womb to breed free men?
When I was one-and-twenty I heard a wise man say, 'Give crowns and pounds and guineas But not your heart away; Give pearls away and rubies, But keep your fancy free.' But I was one-and-twenty No use to talk to me.
To love is to be a fish. My boat wallows in the sea. You who are free, rescue the dead.
We know our will is free, and there's an end on't.
Maybe that's what is crazy: to want to be free. A lot of people wouldn't cross the street for it.
Es ist oft besser, in Ketten als frei zu sein. It is often safer to be in chains than to be free.
There are many people in the world who really don't understand, or say they don't, what is the great issue between the free world and the Communist world. Let them come to Berlin!
All free men, wherever they may live, are citizens of Berlin, and therefore, as a free man, I take pride in the words,'Ich bin ein Berliner.' I am a Berliner!
Who first invented workand tied the free And holy-day rejoicing spirit down To the ever-haunting importunity Of business?
Only the tiniest fracton of mankind want freedom. All the rest want someone to tell them theyare free.
Give me your tired, your poor, Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free, The wretched refuse of your teeming shore, Send these, the homeless, tempest-tossed, to me: I lift my lamp beside the golden door.
'A house divided against itself cannot stand': I believe that this Government cannot endure permanently half- slave and half-free. I do not expect the Union to be dissolved. I do not expect the house to fallbut I do expect it will cease to be divided. It will become all one thing, or all the other.
Free trade, one of the greatest blessings which a government can confer on a people, is in almost every country unpopular.
No man who knows aught, can be so stupid to deny that all men naturally were born free.
I formed them free, and free they must remain, Till they enthrall themselves
This is servitude, To serve th'unwise, or him who hath rebelled Against his worthier, as thine now serve thee, Thyself not free, but to thyself enthralled.
The novel is practicallya Protestant form of art; it is the product of the free mind, of the autonomous individual.
No modern Irish writer, even of the stature of Yeats or Joyce, is completely free from traces of nationalism.
Amid the wreck and the misery of nations it is our just exaltation that we have continued superior to all that ambition or despotism could effect; and our still higher exaltation ought to be that we provide not only for our own safety but hold out a prospect for nations now bending under the yoke of tyranny of what the exertions of a free people can effect.
Information, freefrominterestorprejudice, freefromthe vanity of the writer or the influence of a Government, is as necessary to the human mind as pure air and water to the human body.
Like all other contracts, wages should be left to the fair and free competition of themarket, and should never be controlled by the interference of the legislature.
Were I (who to my loss already am One of those strange prodigious creatures, Man) A spirit, free to choose for my own share What case of flesh and blood I'd choose to wear, I'd be a dog, a monkey, or a bear.
The poet must be free to love or hate as the spirit moves him, freeto change, freeto be a chameleon, freetobe an enfant terrible. He must above all never worry about his effect on other people.Power requires that one do just that all the time. Power requires that the inner person never be unmasked.No, we poetshavetogo naked. And since this is so, it is better that we stay private people; a naked public person would be rather ridiculous, what?
L'homme est condamne a' e" tre libre. Man is condemned to be free.
Vous e" tes libre, choisissez, c'est-a' -dire, inventez. Aucune morale ge ne rale ne peut vous indiquer ce qu'il y a a' faire. You are free, therefore choosethat is to say, invent. No rule of general moralitycan show you what you ought to do.
Thenewspaper is of necessitysomethingof a monopoly, and its first duty is to shun the temptations of a monopoly. Its primary office is the gathering of News. At the peril of its soul it must see that the supply is not tainted. Neither in what it gives, nor in what it does not give, nor in the mode of presentation, must the unclouded face of Truth suffer wrong.Comment is free, but facts are sacred.
Newspapersarebornfreeand everywhereareinchains. See Rousseau 700:41.
Come fill up my cup, come fill up my cann, Come saddle my horses, and call up my man; Come open your gates, and let me gae free, I daurna stay langer in Bonny Dundee!
Thosewhotalk most abouttheblessings of marriageand the constancy of its vows are the very people who declare that if the claim were broken and the prisoners were left free to choose, the whole social fabric would flyasunder.Youcan't havetheargument both ways.Ifthe prisoner is happy, why lock him in? If he is not, why pretend that he is?
Englishmen never will be slaves: they are free to do whatever the Government and public allow them to do. 778
The loathsome mask has fallen, the man remains Sceptreless, free, uncircumscribed, but man Equal, unclassed, tribeless, and nationless, Exempt from awe, worship, degree, the king Over himself; just, gentle, wise: but man Passionless?no, yet free from guilt or pain, Which were, for his will made or suffered them, Nor yet exempt, though ruling them like slaves, From chance, and death, and mutability, The clogs of that which else might oversoar The loftiest star of unascended heaven, Pinnacled dim in the intense inane.
We were now actually in the inner sanctuary of the Nanda Devi Basin, and at each step I experienced that subtlethrill which anyone of imagination must feel when treading hitherto unexplored country My most blissful dream as a child was to be in some such valley, free to wander where I liked, and discover for myself some hitherto unrevealed glory of Nature. Now the reality was no less wonderful than that half-forgotten dream; and of how many childish fancies can that be said, in this age of disillusionment ?
Writers are much more esteemed in Russia, they playa much larger part in society thantheydo in theWest.The advantage of not being free is that people listen to you.
You only have power over people so long as you do not take everything away from them. But when you have robbed man of everything, he is no longer in your pockethe is free.
No one can be perfectly free until all are free; no one can be perfectly moral till all are moral; no one can be perfectly happy till all are happy.
Nempe falluntur homines, quod se liberos esse putant; quae opinioinhoc soloconsistit, quodsuarum actionum sint conscii, et ignari causarum, a quibus determinantur. Haec ergo est eorum libertatis idea, quod suarum actionum nullam cognoscant causam. Men are mistaken in thinking themselves free; and this opinion consists of this alone, that theyare conscious of their actions and ignorant of the causes by which they are determined. This, therefore, is their idea of liberty, that they should know no cause of their actions.
Homo liber de nulla re minus quam de morte cogitat; et ejus sapienta non mortis, sed vitae meditatio est. A free man thinks of nothing less than of death, and his wisdom is a meditation not of death but of life.
The true call of the desert, of the mountains, or the sea, is their silencefree of the networks of dead speech.
We have confused the free with the free and easy.
To live out of doors with the woman a man loves is of all lives the most complete and free.
O Domine Deus! speravi inTe; O care miJesu! nunc libera me; In dura catena, in misera poena, DesideroTe, Languendo, gemendo, et genu flectendo Adoro, imploro, ut liberes me! O Lord my God, I hope in thee; My dear Lord Jesus, set me free; In chains, in pains On bended knee I adore thee, implore thee To set me free.
As long as possible live free and uncommitted. It makes but little differencewhether youare committedtoa farm or the county jail.
The freedom to marry has long been recognized as one ofthevital personal rights essentialtotheorderly pursuit of happiness by free men.
In this House, which is termed a place of free speech, there is nothing so necessary for the preservation of the Prince and State as free speech; and without it, it is a scorn and a mockery to call it a Parliament House, for in truth it is none but a very school of flatteryand dissimulation, and so fit a place to serve the devil and his angels in, and not to glorify God and benefit the Commonwealth.
Nations should with one accord adopt the doctrine of President Monroe as the doctrine of the world; that every people should be left free to determine its own policy, its own way of development, unhindered, unthreatened, unafraidthe little along with the great and powerful. Those are American principles, American policies.We could stand for no others. Theyare also the principles of mankind, and must prevail.
If you put a floor under wages and a ceiling over prices, a free man cannot long stand erect.
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