Lee Hyeon-seo Quotes

I have lived under totalitarian Communism, so I prize freedom as much as anyone and have long fought for freedom of conscience and speech.

Our liberty cannot depend on the good intention of those in power.

Without democracy freedom is a chimera

But America was founded on the principle that every person has God-given rights. That power belongs to the people. That government exists to protect our rights and serve our interests. That we shouldn't be trapped in the circumstances of our birth. That we should be free to go as far as our talents and work can take us.

We live in a free world, so everyone can say whatever.

No cause is left but the most ancient of all, the one, in fact, that from the beginning of our history has determined the very existence of politics, the cause of freedom versus tyranny.

There is no doubt that, with the exception of a very small number of people close to a vicious regime, the people of Iraq have been liberated and they understand that they've been liberated.

I believe, basically, that individual freedom is very important.

The desire for liberty has also made itself felt as struggle against domestic tyranny or arbitrary rule.

Freedom is popular. Bring it on.

There is a crying need today to have this truth heralded throughout the land that youth especially may appreciate and hold the freedom of the individual as sacred as did our revolutionary fathers.

Ultimately, freedom and democracy are stronger than fear and tyranny.

Having lived through the transition from totalitarianism, I am acutely mindful of the need to never take for granted the basic freedoms of thought, expression and belief that democracy brings.

It is harder to preserve than to obtain liberty.

Liberal Democracy is all about extending choice. Give people the option to decide their retirement age, and you immediately extend their freedom in a very significant way.

When there is state there can be no freedom, but when there is freedom there will be no state.

America's greatest contribution to the world is its concept of democracy, its concept of freedom, freedom of action, freedom of speech, and freedom of thought.

Fundamentally, I do agree, certainly, people must be allowed to express their own opinions freely. Freedom is part of the essential rights of all nations.

Russia is the only place where men and women can be free.

The price of freedom is less than the cost of repression.

Liberty is not a means to a higher political end. It is the highest political end.

I am a Canadian, a free Canadian, free to speak without fear, free to worship God in my own way, free to stand for what I think right, free to oppose what I believe wrong, or free to choose those who shall govern my country. This heritage of freedom I pledge to uphold for myself and all mankind.

Only the history of free peoples is worth our attention; the history of men under a despotism is merely a collection of anecdotes.

Without political freedom there can be no other freedoms, but only an uncertain and uneasy exercise of privileges which may be terminated abruptly without anybody's having to account to those who are affected by these decisions.

You will be emancipated from tyranny and oppression …