George Clooney Quotes

History does not long entrust the care of freedom to the weak or the timid

History has taught us over and over again that freedom is not free. When push comes to shove, the ultimate protectors of freedom and liberty are the brave men and women in our armed forces. Throughout our history, they've answered the call in bravery and sacrifice.

The armored cars of dreams, contrived to let us do so many a dangerous thing.

Courage: Great Russian word, fit for the songs of our children's children, pure on their tongues, and free.

Glorious shall be the battle when the time comes to fight for our people and our race.

A moth-eaten rag on a worm-eaten pole, It does not look likely to stir a man's soul. 'Tis the deeds that were done 'neath the moth-eaten rag, When the pole was a staff, and the rag was a flag.

I stand by 'Roots' as symbol of the fate of my people.

We looked at each other. And it occurred to me that despite his faults, which were numerous and spectacular, the reason I’d liked Boris and felt happy around him from almost the moment I’d met him was that he was never afraid. You didn’t meet many people who moved freely through the world with such a vigorous contempt for it and at the same time such oddball and unthwartable faith in what, in childhood, he had liked to call “the Planet of Earth.

The timid and fearful cannot defend liberty -- or anything else.

All I insist on, and nothing else, is that you should show the whole world that you are not afraid. Be silent, if you choose; but when it is necessary, speak—and speak in such a way that people will remember it.

We believe in bravery. We believe in taking action. We believe in freedom from fear and in acquiring the skills to force the bad out of our world so that the good can prosper and thrive. If you also believe in those things, we welcome you.

Scared is the price brave people pay to enjoy lives that make history.

No police or military in the world can protect people who are cowards.

We will not be driven by fear into an age of unreason, if we dig deep in our history and our doctrine, and remember that we are not descended from fearful men ... We proclaim ourselves, as indeed we are, the defenders of freedom, wherever it continues to exist in the world, but we cannot defend freedom abroad by deserting it at home.

Before history is written down in books, it is written in courage.

We will not be driven by fear ... if we remember that we are not descended from fearful men.

If we as a people realized the greatness from which we came we would be less likely to disrespect ourselves.

You always know the mark of a coward. A coward hides behind freedom. A brave person stands in front of freedom and defends it for others.

History knows no greater display of courage than that shown by the people of the Soviet Union.

There are some women who seem to be born without fear, just as there are people who are born without the ability to feel pain ... Providence appears to protect such women, maybe out of astonishment.

Most people are paralyzed by fear. Overcome it and you take charge of your life and your world.

People say, 'Are you afraid? Are you scared for your life?' and I tell them: If I choose today to tone it down, if I choose today to shut up, tomorrow me, you, and all of us will be forced to.

The devil doesn't need an advocate. The brave need supporters, not critics

I will stand by you. You must not be afraid. This is a brave land, Susanna, founded by brave people who never shrank from their duty or their vision of freedom. But this land has a future only if each of us stands up for what is right when it is given us to do so.

America will never run... And we will always be grateful that liberty has found such brave defenders.