Maxwell Anderson Quotes

When liberty is on the march, we ought to be with it.

Democracy is a destiny of humanity which cannot be averted. It can be delayed but not defeated.

Remember, freedom is always taken, never given.

There are more people living in freedom today than at any other time in the history of the human race.

Democracy still has a real hope and chance in Iraq, and true freedom in this country would be the greatest testament to those who gave their lives for it.

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.

The State is the altar of political freedom and, like the religious altar, it is maintained for the purpose of human sacrifice.

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

For a man of my generation, our century has been a long intellectual and political struggle in favor of freedom.

Each generation must recreate liberty for its own times.

A people inspired by democracy, human rights and economic opportunity will turn their back decisively against extremism.

You can't put democracy and freedom back into a box.

We gain freedom when we have paid the full price.

The dream of democracy has long been enshrined in the hearts of the Egyptian people. It only needed awakening.

Freeing oppressed nationalities is perhaps the most dangerous of all philanthropic enterprises.

The glorious spectacle of eighteen millions of people, struggling to burst their chains and be free.

[Addressing the Korean parliament:] You are not alone. You will never be alone as long as you continue to play worthily your part in the great design of human freedom.

Democracy is always a beckoning goal, not a safe harbor. For freedom is an unremitting endeavor, never a final achievement.

You will be emancipated from tyranny and oppression …

The battle of freedom is to be fought out on principle.

Liberty is a blessing so inestimable, that, wherever there appears any probability of recovering it, a nation may willingly run many hazards, and ought not even to repine at the greatest effusion of blood or dissipation of treasure.

Some of us gave a little blood for the right to participate in the democratic process.

It is so sad that it takes so long for people to understand what needs to happen in order to be free.

In my lifetime, I have seen how greater liberty, greater justice, and greater respect ultimately does prevail, but it prevails only when people are willing to fight for it and willing to lose for it.

I think about freedom and the urgency around our imagination. If you can't imagine it, you can't fight for it.