Fortune Quote #3170

We are in the midst of the first world war of the twenty-first century,
waged between the world of terror and the world of democracy... The world
of democracy will win this struggle. But in order for the victory to be
everlasting... It is imperative to expand the world our enemies are trying
to destroy, to export democracy. -- Natan Sharansky, 2002

Fortune Quote #3169

No country in history ever complied with a higher standard of human rights
[than Israel]. -- Alan Dershowitz

Fortune Quote #3168

When freedom's skeptics argue today that freedom cannot be "imposed" from
the outside, or that the free world has no role to play in spreading
democracy around the world, I cannot but be amazed. Less than one
generation has passed since the West found the Achilles heel of the Soviet
Union by pursuing an activist policy that *linked* the rights of the Soviet
people to the USSR's international standing. The same formula will work
again today. -- Natan Sharansky, "The Case for Democracy"

Fortune Quote #3167

"American policy in the 1980s was a catalyst for the collapse of the
Soviet Union." -- Oleg Kalugin, former KGB general

Fortune Quote #3166

[From the `when smart people say stupid things' department:] "What counts
is results, and there can be no doubt that the Soviet planning system has
been a powerful engine for economic growth...The Soviet model has surely
demonstrated that a command economy is capable of mobilizing resources for
rapid growth." -- Paul Samuelson, MIT, Nobel laureate in economics,
1985

Fortune Quote #3165

[I]f it had not been for the Reagan defense buildup, if the United States
had not demonstrated that it is willing not only to stand up for freedom
but to devote considerable sums of money to defending it, we probably would
not be sitting here today having a free discussion between Russians and
Americans. -- Boris Pinsker, Soviet Economist

Fortune Quote #3164

The years ahead will be great ones for our country, for the cause of
freedom and for the spread of civilization. The West won't contain
Communism, it will transcend Communism. We will not bother to denounce it,
we'll dismiss it as a sad, bizarre chapter in human history whose last
pages are even now being written. -- Ronald Reagan, 1981

Fortune Quote #3163

[From the `when smart people say stupid things' department:] Today [the
Soviet Union] is a country whose economic achievements bear comparison with
those of the U.S. -- Lester Thurow, 1989

Fortune Quote #3162

[From the `when smart people say stupid things' department:] "...the
Russian system succeeds because, in contrast with Western industrial
economies, it makes full use of its manpower." -- John Galbraith,
1984

Fortune Quote #3161

Americans, of all people, should never be surprised by the power of
liberty to transform lives and nations. That power brought settlers on
perilous journeys, inspired colonies to rebellion, ended the sin of
slavery, and set our Nation against the tyrannies of the 20th
century. -- George W. Bush

Fortune Quote #3160

There is but one just use of power and it is to serve people. --
George W. Bush

Fortune Quote #3159

Freedom and fear, justice and cruelty, have always been at war, and we
know that God is not neutral between them. -- George W. Bush

Fortune Quote #3158

Free people will set the course of history. -- George W. Bush

Fortune Quote #3157

Men and women can be good without faith, but faith is a force of
goodness. Men and women can be compassionate without faith, but faith
often inspires compassion. -- George W. Bush

Fortune Quote #3156

The liberty we prize is not America's gift to the world. It is God's gift
to humanity. -- George W. Bush

Fortune Quote #3155

Ours are not Western values, they are the universal values of the human
spirit. And anywhere, any time ordinary people are given the chance to
choose, the choice is the same: freedom, not tyranny; democracy, not
dictatorship; the rule of law, not the rule of the secret police.
-- Tony Blair, address to joint session of Congress, 2003

Fortune Quote #3154

We go forward with complete confidence in the eventual triumph of
freedom. Not because history runs on the wheels of inevitability; it is
human choices that move events. Not because we consider ourselves a chosen
nation; God moves and chooses as He wills. We have confidence because
freedom is the permanent hope of mankind, the hunger in dark places, the
longing of the soul. -- George W. Bush

Fortune Quote #3153

From the perspective of a single day... the issues and questions before
our country are many. From the viewpoint of centuries, the questions that
come to us are narrowed and few. Did our generation advance the cause of
freedom? And did our character bring credit to that cause? --
George W. Bush

Fortune Quote #3152

Those who deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves; and, under
the rule of a just God, cannot long retain it. -- Abraham Lincoln

Fortune Quote #3151

In the long run, there is no justice without freedom, and there can be no
human rights without human liberty. -- George W. Bush

Fortune Quote #3150

We will persistently clarify the choice before every ruler and every
nation: The moral choice between oppression, which is always wrong, and
freedom, which is eternally right. America will not pretend that jailed
dissidents prefer their chains, or that women welcome humiliation and
servitude, or that any human being aspires to live at the mercy of
bullies. -- George W. Bush

Fortune Quote #3149

The great objective of ending tyranny is the concentrated work of
generations. The difficulty of the task is no excuse for avoiding
it. -- George W. Bush

Fortune Quote #3148

We are led, by events and common sense, to one conclusion: The survival of
liberty in our land increasingly depends on the success of liberty in other
lands. The best hope for peace in our world is the expansion of freedom in
all the world. -- George W. Bush

Fortune Quote #3147

There is only one force of history that can break the reign of hatred and
resentment, and expose the pretensions of tyrants, and reward the hopes of
the decent and tolerant, and that is the force of human freedom. --
George W. Bush

Fortune Quote #3146

It is better to imitate goodness than to imitate wickedness... [I]f you
are sincerely trying to improve yourself, do not be disturbed if people
call you a hypocrite just because a few of your failings have been
discovered. -- Paramahansa Yogananda

Fortune Quote #3145

I think you can be an honest person and lie about any number of
things. -- Dan Rather, former CBS news anchor

Fortune Quote #3144

The farther backward you can look, the farther forward you are likely to
see. -- Winston Churchill

Fortune Quote #3143

An optimist sees an opportunity in every calamity; a pessimist sees a
calamity in every opportunity. -- Winston Churchill

Fortune Quote #3142

In wartime, truth is so precious that she should always be attended by a
bodyguard of lies. -- Winston Churchill

Fortune Quote #3141

Death and sorrow will be the companions of our journey; hardship our
garment; constancy and valor our only shield. We must be united, we must
be undaunted, we must be inflexible. -- Winston Churchill

Fortune Quote #3140

Let us therefore brace ourselves to our duties, and so bear ourselves that
if the British Empire and its Commonwealth last for a thousand years, men
will still say: `This was their finest hour.' -- Winston Churchill,
speech before the Battle of Britain