Free Country Quotes

• This is a free country, and nobody should be criticized for their political beliefs. We're all allowed to have our opinions.

  Shannen Doherty

  Country, Political, Belief

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• The world order which we seek is the co-operation of free countries, working together in a friendly, civilized society.

  Franklin D. Roosevelt

  Country, Order, History

  The Four Freedoms, delivered 6 January, 1941 (photo of FDR in 1936)

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• To blend, without coercion, the individual good and the common good is the essence of citizenship in a free country.

  Dwight D. Eisenhower

  Country, Essence, Coercion

  Dwight D. Eisenhower's Columbia University Inaugural Addres, October 12, 1948.

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• What a lie it is to call this a free country, where none but the unworthy and undeserving may swear.

  Mark Twain

  Country, Lying, May

  Mark Twain (2012). “Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations”, p.381, Courier Corporation

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• Europe is a collection of free countries.

  Douglas J. Feith

  Country, Europe, Collections

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• Dacca is now the free capital of a free country.

  Indira Gandhi

  Country

  Indira Gandhi, Indira Gandhi Abhinandan Samiti (1975). “The Spirit of India: volumes presented to Shrimati Indira Gandhi by the Indira Gandhi Abhinandan Samiti”

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• The worst fear in the hearings was that you would get some evil interrogator: you could never know what might happen then. No one who lives in a free country will ever understand that kind of fear. What is most horrifying is the realization that you have no idea what can happen, that your life is totally in the hands of someone in the chair in front of you, someone might well be a demon.

  Diet Eman

  Country, Hands, Ideas

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• Socrates: Have you noticed on our journey how often the citizens of this new land remind each other it is a free country? Plato: I have, and think it odd they do this.Socrates: How so, Plato?Plato: It is like reminding a baker he is a baker, or a sculptor he is asculptor.Socrates: You mean to say if someone is convinced of their trade, they haveno need to be reminded.Plato: That is correct.Socrates: I agree. If these citizens were convinced of their freedom, they would not need reminders.

  E. A. Bucchianeri

  Country, Plato, Mean

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• Why, in our "free" country, do Americans meekly stand aside and let the state limit our choices, even when we are dying?

  John Stossel

  Country, Choices, Dying

  "John Stossel's Plan to Abolish the FDA Should Be Laughed Out of Town". www.cbsnews.com. March 1, 2010.

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• It's a free country and I can keep my mouth shut whenever I want

  James Van Der Beek

  Country, Mouths, Want

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• The chief difference [between totalitarian and free countries] is that only the totalitarians appear clearly to know how they want to achieve that result, while the free world has only its past achievements to show, being by its very nature unable to offer any detailed "plan" for further growth.

  Friedrich August von Hayek

  Country, Past, Differences

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• 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

  Christian, Country, Baby

  "The marriage of church and state is anything but gay" by Simon Jenkins, www.theguardian.com. June 12, 2012.

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• Adults in a free country should be able to smoke a joint if they want to.

  Roseanne Barr

  Country, Adults, Want

  "Barr tells 'The Doctors' to legalize it" by Patrick Gavin, www.politico.com. October 24, 2012.

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• 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

  Country, Men, Essence

  Margaret Thatcher (1977). “Let our children grow tall: selected speeches, 1975-1977”

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• This is a free country, madam. We have a right to share your privacy in a public place.

  Peter Ustinov

  Funny, Country, Humor

  Peter Ustinov (2002). “Romanoff and Juliet”, p.22, Dramatists Play Service Inc

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• In a free country there is much clamor, with little suffering; in a despotic state there is little complaint, with much grievance.

  Lazare Carnot

  Country, Suffering, Littles

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• Intellectual honesty is the quality that the public in free countries always has expected of historians; much more than that it does not expect, nor often get.

  Samuel Eliot Morison

  Country, Honesty, Intellectual

  Samuel Eliot Morison (1953). “By Land and by Sea: Essays and Addresses”, New York : Knopf

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• This is a free country. Folks have a right to send me letters, and I have a right not to read them.

  William Faulkner

  Country, Letters, Reading Books

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• 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

  Country, Men, Swings

  Harvard Law Review, June 1919

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• It's harder, but we're still finding oil in Oklahoma today. The bar has been raised on startup companies, but it can still be done. Every regulation and every rule limits you, but, yes, it can still be done. That's the beauty of living in a free country and having the freedom to have an idea and become an entrepreneur.

  Harold Hamm

  Country, Business, Ideas

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• The fact is that many countries that call themselves free succumbed to medical dictatorship...people are sicker and less healthy...A country which mandates vaccination is not a free country...It is a country of zombies who do what they are told by vested interests who intimidate them and use them to make money.

  Viera Scheibner

  Country, Vaccines, People

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• I do not believe that it can be too often repeated that the freedoms of speech, press, petition and assembly guaranteed by the First Amendment must be accorded to the ideas we hate or sooner or later they will be denied to the ideas we cherish. The first banning of an association because it advocates hated ideas - whether that association be called a political party or not - marks a fateful moment in the history of a free country.

  Hugo Black

  Country, Hate, Party

  "Communist Party v. SACB, 367 U.S. 1". U.S. Supreme Court case, supreme.justia.com. June 5, 1961.

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• 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

  Country, Government, Law

  "Der Weg zur Knechtschaft (The Road to Serfdom)". Book by Friedrich August von Hayek, reason.com. 1944.

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• If we are a free country, we have the right to be free.

  Bernie Sanders

  Country, Ifs

  Source: www.glamour.com

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• The cry has been that when war is declared, all opposition should therefore be hushed. A sentiment more unworthy of a free country could hardly be propagated. If the doctrine be admitted, rulers have only to declare war and they are screened at once from scrutiny. . . . In war, then, as in peace, assert the freedom of speech and of the press. Cling to this as the bulwark of all our rights and privileges.

  William Ellery Channing

  Country, Peace, War

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