Lawrence E. Harrison Quotes

Without economic development, any potential for political openness and freedom will be questionable.

The progress of freedom depends more upon the maintenance of peace, the spread of commerce and the diffusion of education, then upon the labors of cabinets and foreign offices.

That should be a goal of U. S. policy—not to get along with dictators.

Ours is the only government under heaven where liberty can, in truth, be said to dwell; and the numberless advantages of such a government, for moral, religious, and intellectual improvement, may be learnt from the prosperous state of our country since the time she assumed her just and proper station among the nations of the earth.

Puritanism, believing itself quick with the seed of religious liberty, laid, without knowing it, the egg of democracy.

Overall, for 99 years, the planet grew more peaceful and prosperous under Britain’s eye.

There is a direct connection that cannot be severed between the diplomatic process and growth and prosperity.

Trade brings freedom and well-being for all.

I believed in a number of the E.U.'s core values - the promotion of peace, global trading opportunities, and the values of freedom and democracy. These are areas in which our great country leads the world.

Freedom and democracy are nothing but instruments, just like stability. The goal is called progress and growth. Anyone who puts freedom ahead of stability is hurting growth.

The plan shows that the twenty million people in the German democratic Republic and in the democratic sector of Berlin think only of peace, and that they are working for freedom and peaceful prosperity.

Several experts on the Middle East concur that the Middle East cannot be democratized.

Bush will keep up that policy that gives the United State the role of promoting freedom in the world.

We cannot expect that all nations will adopt like systems, for conformity is the jailer of freedom and the enemy of growth.

The stakes are very high for us in Haiti. We have many important interests there. Perhaps the most important to me is our interest in the promotion of democracy in this hemisphere.

I live in Europe and care about democracy and sovereignty of nation states there.

Until the last great war, a general expectation of material improvement was an idea peculiar to Western man. Now war and its aftermath have made economic and social progress a political imperative in every quarter of the globe.

By helping readers understand these mechanics, I hope they will appreciate why freedom is for everyone, why it is essential for our security and why the free world plays a critically important role in advancing democracy around the globe.

When Europe and America stand together the world is a better and more prosperous place.

Immigrants create an engine of economic prosperity.

I see Turkey's future as being in Europe, as one of many prosperous, tolerant, democratic countries.

You know, this idea of going around the world imposing democracy by growing a middle-class, a trading merchant class that is independent of your faith, is a good notion, but we're all partially different - it's no good imposing systems on people that it doesn't suit.

I think the Egyptian people need to restore confidence that Americans, the U.S., means what they say when they talk about democracy, rule of law.

The Reagan years showed us that expanding economic freedom should be the North Star - the guiding light - of U.S. policy, because it is the best way to achieve sustained and broad-based prosperity for all.

You do not export democracy through the Defense Department or the Defense Secretary. You do it through trade agreements, through the Department of Commerce and favorable agreements with our friends and neighbors across the globe.