Maurice Saatchi Quotes

Liberty Enlightening the World

Look, freedom is an overwhelming American notion. The idea that we want to see the world, the peoples of the world free is something that all of us subscribe to.

What world is there for us where our essential nature - and its right to live free - is one and the same?

[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.

Our basic rights declaring document: The Declaration of Independence.

We hold these truths to be self evident: that all men are created equal; that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights; that among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.

Independence is my happiness, and I view things as they are, without regard to place or person; my country is the world, and my religion is to do good.

the signing of the Declaration of Independence … This was the first public assertion of equality.

Our cause is the cause of all mankind.

I believe that, as Americans, our freedoms come from God and not government, and include the rights enumerated in the Declaration of Independence: life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.

When the happy era shall arrive for the emancipation of nations, hastened on as it will be by the example of America, shall they not resort to the Declaration of our Independence as the charter of their rights, and will not its author be hailed as the benefactor of the redeemed?

When Estonia reestablished its sovereignty after a half century of successive thuggish, totalitarian, foreign occupations by the Soviets, the Nazis, and then again the Soviets, we knew we wanted to create a democratic country characterized by rule of law and respect for human rights.

The U.S. Declaration of Independence enshrines the right to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. Alas, that is not the case everywhere in the world.

When we safeguard (the heavenly virtue of freedom), when we honor it, when we protect it, we will walk with Washington, we will pray with patriots, and we shall have peace on earth, good will to men.

You are either free or not free

There’s a limit to how much living can be done in a life without freedom.

Can you not understand that liberty is worth more than ribbons?

It is more important to be free than to be happy.

We defend and we build a way of life, not for America alone, but for all mankind.

I believe that we must assist free peoples to work out their own destinies in their own way.

I tell ye true, liberty is the best of all things; never live beneath the noose of a servile halter.

I say to you that our goal is freedom, and I believe we are going to get there because however much she strays away from it, the goal of America is freedom.

Freedom is the one purport, wisely aimed at, or unwisely, of all man's struggles, toilings and sufferings, in this earth.

I would contend that we place no other value above the right to be free. We will die for our freedom. In fact, we believe freedom is sufficiently important that we will even die so that others around the globe might be free.

My only concern is to set men absolutely, unconditionally free.