Freeman Quotes

• The free man is a warrior.

  

  Friedrich Nietzsche
  • Warrior
  • Freeman

• The liberty of the press is indeed essential to the nature of a free state: but this consists in laying no previous restraints upon publications, and not in freedom from censure for criminal matter when published. Every freeman has an undoubted right to lay what sentiments he pleases before the public: to forbid this, is to destroy the freedom of the press: but if he publishes what is improper, mischievous, or illegal, he must take the consequence of his own temerity.

  

  William Blackstone
  • Liberty
  • Sentiments
  • Restraint

• I liked it because it was such a dangerous script and showed just what human beings are capable of. Here was a movie in which Morgan Freeman and Brad Pitt, who always win in every movie they ever do, simply don't win. I felt that was outrageous for a commercial movie.

  

  Kevin Spacey
  • Movie
  • Winning
  • Humans

• 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.

  

  Thomas Hobbes
  • Strenght
  • Freeman
  • Hindered

• A favorite cast? Lisa Kudrow, Anthony Hopkins, Gene Hackman, Morgan Freeman, and my wife.

  

  William H. Macy
  • Wife
  • Casts
  • Genes

• Let us therefore animate and encourage each other, and show the whole world that a Freeman, contending for liberty on his own ground, is superior to any slavish mercenary on earth.

  

  George Washington
  • Liberty
  • Show
  • Encourage

• All mankind is divided, as it was at all times and is still, into slaves and freemen.

  

  Friedrich Nietzsche
  • Mankind
  • Slaves
  • All Times

• I thought, "why don't we be innovative and create something nobody had ever done before?" It was a huge hit and we immediately did a sequel with Chris Rock, Morgan Freeman, Tina Turner and Maya Angelou.

  

  Henry Louis Gates
  • Rocks
  • Innovative
  • Turner

• In a democracy only will the freeman of nature design to dwell.

  

  Plato
  • Democracy
  • Design
  • Dwell

• He is the freeman whom the truth makes free, And all are slaves besides.

  

  William Cowper
  • Freedom
  • Slave
  • Freeman

• The chains of a slave are broken the moment he considers himself a free man.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Slave
  • Consider
  • Chains

• Freeman denied the claim that he was a “man of God”, saying that “the question of faith is whatever you actually believe is. We take a lot of what we're talking about in science on faith; we posit a theory, and until it's dis-proven we have faith that it's true. If the mathematics work out, then it's true, until it's proven to be untrue.

  

  Morgan Freeman
  • Faith
  • Question
  • Man of God

• Man hazards the condition and loses the virtues of a freeman, in proportion as he accustoms his thoughts to view without anguish or shame, his lapse into the bondage of debtor.

  

  Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
  • Shame
  • Virtues
  • Debtor

• The other classes of which society was composed were, first, freemen, owners of small portions of land, independent, though they sometimes voluntarily became the vassals of their more opulent neighbors, whose power was necessary for their protection.

  

  Thomas Bulfinch
  • Sometimes
  • Independent
  • Protection