Nawaz Sharif Quotes

Democracy is worth dying for, because it's the most deeply honorable form of government ever devised by man.

My father offered his life so our democracy could live. My mother devoted her life to nurturing that democracy. I will dedicate my life to making our democracy reach its fullest potential: that of ensuring equality for all. My family has sacrificed much, and I am willing to do this again if necessary.

Freedom. It's not something you go out and die for.

What is good for democracy is good for America.

Liberty was realized when the citizens were ... willing to sacrifice their private interests for the sake of the community

An American is one who will sacrifice property, ease and security in order that he and his children may retain the right of free men.

An American is one who will fight for his freedom and that of his neighbor.

All nations are imagined communities, and our imagined community is based on a uniquely inspiring set of principles. Americans have proved that they can be loyal to, and will fight on behalf of, a more complex, more cerebral national ideal, one derived from ideas of democracy and justice as opposed to blood and soil.

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

Each generation in this country gets the responsibility of being the ambassadors for this American democracy that our parents and grandparents fought, bled, and died for.

Those who serve in our armed forces do so from a profound sense of duty to secure liberty for their fellow Americans. They enlist to serve their fellow citizens who express their will through elected representatives, not an unaccountable defense establishment.

People fought hard for freedoms; they didn't fight hard for one mentality. If you really talk about what the country was founded on and what those people are protecting who went to war and fought these wars and give us our freedoms and are fighting for our freedoms, I think you have to really ask yourself what is involved in freedom.

I do. I vote. People died for our right to vote, you know, and I can't let that go.

I am about to vote. I am about to do something that human beings are rarely allowed to do. I am doing something that did not exist until America.

When asked what he was fighting for, General Washington, in writing to General Thomas, said the object was 'neither glory nor extent of territory, but a defense of all that is dear and valuable in life.' He must have been an umpire. That's what umpiring is about.

Strong, generous, and confident, she has nobly served mankind. Beware how you trifle with your marvellous inheritance, this great land of ordered liberty, for if we stumble and fall freedom and civilization everywhere will go down in ruin.

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

The Union - It is dear to us, but liberty is dearer.

America's Veterans have served their country with the belief that democracy and freedom are ideals to be upheld around the world.

The patriot's blood is the seed of Freedom's tree.

It does not matter what party you are a member of in this great Nation of ours. Accountability and competence are characteristics that Americans value throughout our great land.

It's appropriate to celebrate public service, and the thoughtful people who choose to serve. They symbolize what is good and decent about this historic citizen legislature, and we thank them.

For what were all these country patriots born? To hunt, and vote, and raise the price of corn?

Our brave soldiers and support personnel are engaged in a battle as important as any the United States has ever before waged, for the success of democracy in Iraq is a crucial test of the ideals this Nation was founded upon.

Politicians love power. I love freedom. That is why I am not a politician.