Kim Young-sam Quotes

In time, all of Korea will be united in liberty.

[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.

Wherever people long to be free, they will find a friend in the United States

Liberty and equality are magical words.

As long as I have any choice in the matter, I shall live only in a country where civil liberty, tolerance and equality of all citizens before the law prevail.

Hong Kong's people will get what they want, despite China's objections. Freedom invariably wins in the end.

If you give up on democracy, you might as well give up on everything.

If we care about universal principles such as freedom, democracy and the rule of law, we cannot leave them to the care of market forces; we must establish some other institutions to safeguard them.

The basis of democratic freedom is freedom of speech.

Each generation has a right to choose for itself the form of government it believes most promotive of its happiness.

There is not a truth to be gathered from history more certain, or more momentous, than this: that civil liberty cannot long be separated from religious liberty without danger, and ultimately without destruction to both. Wherever religious liberty exists, it will, first or last, bring in and establish political liberty.

We can't have a freedom struggle without free choice.

The hardest lesson of my life has come to me late. It is that a nation can win freedom without its people becoming free.

Freedom is partial to no race. Freedom has no religion. Freedom favors no ethnicity. Freedom discriminates not between rich and poor countries. Inevitably freedom will overwhelm Ethiopia.

People have the right to come and choose their own political solutions.

The degree of a country's freedom is the degree of its prosperity.

Poverty in a democracy is as much to be preferred to what is called prosperity under despots, as freedom is to slavery.

If a nation wishes, it can have both free elections and slavery.

We do not choose political freedom because it promises us this or that. We choose it because it makes possible the only dignified form of human coexistence, the only form in which we can be fully responsible for ourselves. Whether we realize its possibilities depends on all kinds of things — and above all on ourselves.

One of our greatest assets is that all men aspire to be equal and free. This fact haunts the rulers of the Kremlin today for even they cannot change this law of nature and they know it. It is up to us, not only by example but by positive acts, to make the most of this driving force within mankind.

Everyone's gotta have a voice, to be able to speak out. Left supresses right, right supresses left, and what's left and what's right? You know? It's America. You gotta be able to speak out. That's why people came here from all over the world: to have a fair shake. Not more than somebody else - the same.

The victory of democracy in South Africa is the common achievement of all humanity.

Liberty cannot live apart from constitutional

Being democratic is not enough, a majority cannot turn what is wrong into right. In order to be considered truly free, countries must also have a deep love of liberty and an abiding respect for the rule of law.

In the long and dogged crusade that the human race has fought in favor of democracy, the ideal of liberty, of freedom, has always been the goal.