Barbara Amiel Quotes

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.

The three main sources of scepticism are first, that not every people desires freedom; second, that democracy in certain parts of the world would be dangerous; and third, that there is little the world's democracies can do to advance freedom outside their countries.

In our modern age - in the age of free information - I don't think there is any place for dictatorships.

Your generous part in my liberation is taken by the world for the revelation of the fact, that the United States are resolved not to allow the despots of the world to trample on oppressed humanity.

The free world should not wait for dictatorial regimes to consent to reform.

Freedom's skeptics must understand that the democracy that hates you is less dangerous than the dictator who loves you.

Protect the people from the oppression of dictatorships.

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

A global government would almost by definition abusive. As someone who escaped from Communist government, how would I escape from global government.

The end of some of the harshest dictatorships has not necessarily spelled a more free world. The extinction of the thing we despise is not giving rise to the democracy we hoped for.

The only situation that I can't be in favour of is the lack of respect to human rights in Venezuela.

It is time for free nations to stop ignoring or even normalizing tyranny. Not only is it the right thing to do - but it's also the only way to stand up for our national security and the safety of the Canadian people.

If you are in Brazil and you grew up in a right-wing dictatorship, you think Marxism is liberating. But if you grew up in Czechoslovakia, and the Soviet Union is controlling everything and killing people, then you think capitalism is liberating. Neither of those two things are true and it doesn't take a lot brains to understand this.

The deadliest foe of democracy is not autocracy but liberty frenzied.

You can't, in the 21st century, continue to live in a system where people live under martial law for 30 years.

But there is a big difference in working for the West and working for a totalitarian state.

Getting rid of the dictator is only a first step in establishing a free society. The dictatorship must also be disassembled.

Governments that block the aspirations of their people, that steal or are corrupt, that oppress and torture or that deny freedom of expression and human rights should bear in mind that they will find it increasingly hard to escape the judgement of their own people, or where warranted, the reach of international law.

Obama was late to affirm the Egyptian revolution as a democratic movement, and even then he was eager to have installed those military leaders who were known for their practices of torture.

America is a friend to the people of Iraq. Our demands are directed only at the regime that enslaves them and threatens us. When these demands are met, the first and greatest benefit will come to Iraqi men, women and children.

Let's win the peace and democracy the good people of Iraq so richly deserve after decades of tyranny.

The worldwide, agelong struggle between fascism and democracy will not stop when the fighting ends in Germany and Japan.

My optimism is not based primarily on the successful march of democracy in recent times but rather is based on the experience of having lived in a fear society and studied the mechanics of tyranny that sustain such a society.

I couldn't have imagined that I would live long enough to see Egypt emancipated from decades of repression.

The free world led by the U.S. fought almost all regimes that trampled on human rights.