George W. Bush Quotes

Democracies are poor breeding grounds for terrorism and war.

We know that dictators are quick to choose aggression, while free nations strive to resolve differences in peace.

This is not a battle between the United States of America and terrorism, but between the free and democratic world and terrorism.

I like to believe that people in the long run are going to do more to promote peace than our governments. Indeed, I think that people want peace so much that one of these days governments had better get out of the way and let them have it.

While significant differences between our governments continue, the progress of the last two years reminds the world of what is possible when we are defined not by the past but by the future we can build together.

Democracies don't go to war against each other, and by and large they don't sponsor terrorism. They're more likely to respect the environment and human rights and social justice. It's no accident that most of the terrorists come from non-democratic countries.

War and Authority are companions; Peace and Liberty are companions.

We who advocate peace are becoming an irrelevance when we speak peace. The government speaks rubber bullets, live bullets, tear gas, police dogs, detention, and death.

I was never convinced that war was the best system to bring democracy to the country.

We all want peace. Unfortunately, there are times when peace must be defended by fighting terror and tyranny.

Liberalism is totalitarianism with a human face.

To defeat the aggressors is not enough to make peace durable. The main thing is to discard the ideology that generates war.

I am optimistic that peace can be achieved in the region because I believe that every society on earth can be free and that if freedom comes to the Middle East, there can be peace.

The fight against terror is a common imperative for democracies and must become so for all nations.

Free nations of the world cannot allow Taiwan, a beacon of democracy, to be subdued by an authoritarian China.

Success in Iraq will be a major setback for terrorists and a major asset for the security of this region. The struggle for Iraq is the struggle for the future of the world.

Can a democratic nation fight a War on Terror and at the same time bend over backward so as not to offend a few visitors' rights?

I am confident that in the end freedom and democracy will prevail over terror and tyranny. We will win this war on terror - and when we do Americans, the British, Iraqis, and people around the world will be more secure.

A people free to choose will always choose peace.

Politics is a pendulum whose swings between anarchy and tyranny are fueled by perennially rejuvenated illusions.

The progress of freedom depends more upon the maintenance of peace, the spread of commerce and the diffusion of education, then upon the labors of cabinets and foreign offices.

The advance of freedom is the surest strategy to undermine the appeal of terror in the world.

There can be no reconciliation where there is no open warfare. There must be a battle, a brave boisterous battle, with pennants waving and cannon roaring, before there can be peaceful treaties and enthusiastic shaking of hands.

We must abandon completely the naive faith that school automatically liberates the mind and serves the cause of human progress; in fact, we know that it may serve any cause. It may serve tyranny as well as truth, war as well as peace, death as well as life

The spectacle which confronts all Europe today is a great conflict between democracy and dictatorship.