Richard Perle Quotes

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.

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.

Only a free West can help the prisoners of today's left- and right-wing dictatorships.

The tyrant has fallen, and Iraq is free.

No one argues that we should have imposed a dictatorship in Afghanistan having liberated the country. Similarly, we weren't about to impose a dictatorship in Iraq having liberated the country.

It is our moral duty to intervene today, straight away, to help the Iraqi people in their difficulty. Iraq has to be given back to the Iraqi people

You will be emancipated from tyranny and oppression …

From today onwards, all tyranny, injustice, atrocities, deportations and massacres are banished from this country.

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.

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

No cause is left but the most ancient of all, the one, in fact, that from the beginning of our history has determined the very existence of politics, the cause of freedom versus tyranny.

It's all very well for us to sit here in the West with our high incomes and cushy lives, and say it's immoral to violate the sovereignty of another state. But if the effect of that is to bring people in that country economic and political freedom, to raise their standard of living, to increase their life expectancy, then don't rule it out.

I believe, if done correctly, eliminating Saddam and liberating Iraq could be the 'Normandy Invasion' or 'fall of the Berlin Wall' of our generation... the Iraqi people are eager to be rid of Saddam, and there is equally encouraging evidence that republican principles could thrive there.

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.

The desire for liberty has also made itself felt as struggle against domestic tyranny or arbitrary rule.

We can be proud of our record as an international beacon of liberty. From fostering democracies in Eastern Europe to the stabilization of Iraq and Afghanistan, we have been true to that calling and helped spread freedom to oppressed peoples everywhere.

There aren't traditions of freedom in a place like Iraq. They're going to have to come to grips with a concept that they hadn't been allowed to conceive before.

In liberating Iraq, we have rid the nation and the rest of the world from the danger of Saddam Hussein.

For more than two centuries since winning our own freedom, we the people of the United States have repeatedly answered the call to lead the quest for freedom around the globe.

Ultimately, freedom and democracy are stronger than fear and tyranny.

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

Half a world away nations that once lived under oppression and tyranny are now budding democracies due in large part to America 's leadership and the sacrifices of our military.

The absence of Saddam is a huge weight off the Arab world.