Gijs de Vries Quotes

At the end of the day we want to bring stability and hope to Iraq. That's the only way to defeat terrorism.

As an American people, what is greatest about our history are the many times we have led this world away from hate, towards hope.

New ideas should confront old ideas. We must refer to the example of Europe. People have fought to make Europe what it is today. Freedom is not something that is served up on a plate.

The stories from Iran's present and past are reminders that freedom, democracy and human rights, or fundamentalism, fascism and terrorism are not geographically and culturally determined, but universal.

Peace along with freedom and justice are the pillars for attaining both security and stability and will pave the way towards the eradication of oppression, extremism, and terrorism in our world.

The clash we are witnessing around the world is not a clash of religions, or a clash of civilizations. It is a clash between two opposites, between two eras. It is a clash between a mentality that belongs to the Middle Ages and another mentality that belongs to the 21st century. It is a clash between civilization and backwardness, between the civilized and the primitive, between barbarity and rationality. It is a clash between freedom and oppression, between democracy and dictatorship. It is a clash between human rights, on the one hand, and the violation of these rights, on other hand. It is a clash between those who treat women like beasts, and those who treat them like human beings. What we see today is not a clash of civilizations. Civilizations do not clash, but compete.

There is no one orthodoxy which is the enemy of democracy. All of them are.

Democratic elements in a society by their very nature feel that they have to give their religious fundamentalist opposition freedom of expression and action, a handicap from which their fundamentalist opponents do not suffer.

France represents alone in Europe the pure and unalterable principle of human liberty. This nation friends a mission of cosmopolitanism.

South Africa, so utterly improbably, is a beacon of hope in a dark and troubled world

Behold! in Liberty’s unclouded blaze We lift our heads, a race of other days.

I love that America represents a beacon of hope and opportunity in a world of uncertainty.

I am proud to live in this country, where anything is possible.

These individuals are tyrants, and so they hate democracy. They are bigots, zealots, and persecutors, and so they hate Americas freedom tolerance, and respect for all people. The terrorists of Sept. 11 live and flourish in darkness. They cannot survive in the liberating and inspirational sunlight of American freedom and democracy.

Fear and monarchy pair nicely. But democracy means you have to work with people you may not like but you must still believe are your equals. And a fearful people never trust the other side.

We're all not going to agree on the same things, but that's what makes this country so great.

Our American experiment deserves an advocate, and the American people respond best to inspiration, not fear-mongering.

The fabric of our Constitution and our civilisational culture is based on tolerance.

Not everything is so bad... Whichever way you look at it, we feel that we can face the future when the liberal, democracy-based world sticks together. We have great trust that it will.

To all the countries of the former Soviet Union: look at us, everything is possible.

I have faith in God, and I have faith in the fairness of the American people.

I maintain hope that this country can be what it's supposed to be.

Over the course of history, the answer to nationalism has been liberalism, and I believe it can be the answer again.

The self-proclaimed Islamic State cannot tolerate diversity, which is why we must celebrate it.

Israel is a beacon of hope, freedom and liberty surrounded by existential threats.