Kay Rala Xanana Gusmao Quotes

You have spent many lives and much treasure to bring freedom to many lands that were reluctant to receive it. And here you have a people who won it by themselves and need only the help to preserve it.

Freedom is not a luxury that we can indulge in when at last we have security and prosperity and enlightenment; it is, rather, antecedent to all of these, for without it we can have neither security nor prosperity nor enlightenment.

While it may take generations of nurturing, nations founded on and grounded in freedom will eventually overcome and prosper. Once free, folks rarely accept anything less, and that includes Iraqis.

Liberty is worth paying for.

Liberty is security. Freedom is security.

Whether in chains or in laurels, liberty knows nothing but victories.

You can't separate peace from freedom because no one can be at peace unless he has his freedom.

Our armies do not come into your cities and lands as conquerors or enemies, but as liberators. … It is not the wish of our government to impose upon you alien institutions.

We’re not occupiers. We’re liberators.

Liberty has its roots in blood.

Only freedom can make security secure.

Freedom and liberty should not be sold for all the gold and silver in the world.

Our aim in waging the war in the [Middle] East was to ensure the complete and final emancipation of all those people so long oppressed by the Turks, to establish national governments and administrations which shall derive their authority from the initiative and free will of the peoples themselves

Rejoice in the great, free emancipation of peoples.

I was so hooked by the fight for freedom that nothing mattered to us so long as we fulfilled the dream of years and years of our people being liberated. I thought normal life would come the day after.

Well, I have gotten by twenty-seven years, so that is something. I may die, but the Republic of 1916 will never die. Onward to the Republic and liberation of our people.

We are the voice of freedom.

A people that loves freedom will in the end be free.

Real freedom for people can only exist whenever there is security and independence.

I would contend that we place no other value above the right to be free. We will die for our freedom. In fact, we believe freedom is sufficiently important that we will even die so that others around the globe might be free.

Freedom is such a gift.

If you're not ready to die for it, put the word 'freedom' out of your vocabulary.

Nothing is more precious than independence and liberty.

You'll be free or die!

Freedom is a possession of inestimable value.