George W. Bush Quotes

The problem with this world is that there isn't enough liberty and freedom.

I'm a big advocate of freedom: freedom of speech, freedom of expression, freedom of thought.

We shouldn't be fearful of freedom, we shouldn't be fearful of individual liberty.

Freedom is on the march in this world. I believe everybody in the Middle East desires to live in freedom. I believe women in the Middle East want to live in a free society. I believe mothers and fathers want to raise their children in a free and peaceful world. I believe all these things, because freedom is not America's gift to the world, freedom is the almighty God's gift to each man and woman in this world.

What a free society offers to the individual is much more than what he would be able to do if only he were free.

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

Political freedom is, or ought to be, the best guaranty for the safety and continuance of spiritual, mental, and civil freedom. It is the combination of numbers to secure the liberty to each one.

I am a Canadian, free to speak without fear, free to worship in my own way, free to stand for what I think right, free to oppose what I believe wrong, or free to choose those who shall govern my country. This heritage of freedom I pledge to uphold for myself and all mankind.

I regard freedom of expression as the primary right without which one can not have a proper functioning democracy.

While democracy must have its organization and controls, its vital breath is individual liberty.

A free people, free to believe as we wish, free to speak our minds, free to raise our children as we see fit, will, make no mistake about it, endure.

If you believe in democracy, you must believe in it unconditionally. If you believe that men should be free, then, they should have the right of free association, of free speech, of free publication. Then, no law should permit those democratic processes to be set at nought.

In a free state there must be free speech. In libera civitate etiam linguas esse liberas.

Within the United States, we have put great emphasis upon political freedoms. Because it has been our experience that these freedoms can lead to others.

Once people who have been deprived of basic freedom taste a little of it, they want all of it.

Ultimately freedom is necessary for a society, because every despotic society - for instance, the Russian society - lives on the basis of a rather implausible dogma - the Marxist dogma of world redemption through Communism.

If you do not force political freedom, economic freedom will be stymied sooner or later.

Freedom is not merely a word or an abstract theory, but the most effective instrument for advancing the welfare of man.

Gorbachev gave us freedom of worship and freedom of speech and freedom to see what was going on and freedom to vote, but that freedom won't last unless it is underpinned by economic freedom.

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

The question in brief, is whether democracy and freedom are values to be preserved or threats to be avoided . . . democracy and freedom are more than values to be treasured; they may well be essential to survival.

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.

If freedom is to flourish the philosophic foundations of a free society must be kept a living intellectual issue and its implementation a task which challenges the ingenuity and imagination of the liveliest minds.

Liberty has never lasted long in a democracy, nor has it ever ended in anything better than despotism.

We know what works: freedom works. We know what's right: freedom is right. We know how to secure a more and just and prosperous life for man on earth: through free markets, free speech, free elections and the exercise of free will unhampered by the state.