Dave Winer Quotes

We’re not occupiers. We’re liberators.

Our wars were not fought for the glory of war, but for freedom.

We talk about democracy and human rights. Iraqis talk about justice and honor.

We all want peace. Unfortunately, there are times when peace must be defended by fighting terror and tyranny.

The course of this conflict is not known, yet its outcome is certain. Freedom and fear, justice and cruelty, have always been at war, and we know that God is not neutral between them.

The terrorists are fighting freedom with all their cunning and cruelty because freedom is their greatest fear - and they should be afraid, because freedom is on the march.

No matter what you think about the Iraq war, there is one thing we can all agree on for the next days - we have to salute the courage and bravery of those who are risking their lives to vote and those brave Iraqi and American soldiers fighting to protect their right to vote.

As long as there are men who would hate and destroy, we must find the courage to resist

In this war we are not fighting against you, the German people, for whom we have no bitter feeling, but against a tyrannous and forsworn regime which has betrayed not only its own people but the whole of Western civilization and all that you and we hold dear.

I renounce war for its consequences, for the lies it lives on and propagates, for the undying hatred it arouses, for the dictatorships it puts in place of democracy, for the starvation that stalks after it. I renounce war, and never again, directly or indirectly, will I sanction or support another.

Special interests and the demented philosophy of conquest have driven most wars throughout history. Rarely has the cause of liberty, as it was in our own revolution, been the driving force.

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

We need to make ourselves deaf to the clamor of the whole world, because war feeds on despotism and is not fought for love of God

O’ Yes. War is better than slavery.

War and democracy have never been happy bedfellows…. War has always threatened democracy.

The future belongs to freedom, not to fear.

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

We know that dictators are quick to choose aggression, while free nations strive to resolve differences in peace.

For all who love freedom and peace, the world without Saddam Hussein's regime is a better and safer place.

We came to Iraq to liberate them and to make our world a safer place.

It will be a war of national liberation. We believe the people reject totalitarianism.

Freedom has never been free.

One certain effect of war is to diminish freedom of expression.

A war for a great principle ennobles a nation.

That liberty is a great thing we may know from our own feelings, and we may likewise judge so from the conduct of the white-people, in the late war.