Leon Jaworski Quotes

When the United States aligns with dictatorships and totalitarian regimes, it compromises the basic democratic principles of its foundation - namely, life, liberty and justice for all.

The price of freedom is less than the cost of repression.

Across the region, those rights that we take for granted are being claimed with joy by those who are prying loose the grip of an iron fist.

The major conflicts of our day are autocrats verses the village square.

Trump can embrace dictators and gulags, but we the people stand for human rights, for dignity, for keeping families together.

Democracy is better than tyranny.

Whenever all men are...hastening to be slaves or tyrants we make Liberalism the prime bogey.

The hate of men will pass, and dictators die, and the power they took from the people will return to the people. And so long as men die, liberty will never perish.

Freedom is contagious. That's why despots fear it so much.

No cause is left but the most ancient of all, the one, in fact, that from the beginning of our history has determined the very existence of politics, the cause of freedom versus tyranny.

Your generous part in my liberation is taken by the world for the revelation of the fact, that the United States are resolved not to allow the despots of the world to trample on oppressed humanity.

The desire for liberty has also made itself felt as struggle against domestic tyranny or arbitrary rule.

There have been in this century only one great man and one great thing: Napoleon and liberty. For want of the great man, let us have the great thing.

Anywhere, anytime ordinary people are given the chance to choose, the choice is the same: freedom, not tyranny; democracy, not dictatorship; the rule of law, not the rule of the secret police.

Ultimately, freedom and democracy are stronger than fear and tyranny.

Freedom's skeptics must understand that the democracy that hates you is less dangerous than the dictator who loves you.

Islam has been used in some countries, for instance Sudan, as a means for suppression and the installation of autocratic regimes. This, coupled with the censorship of moderate Muslim voices and increasing state patronage of religious scholars, has led to the propagation of a dogmatic form of divisive Islamic extremism, a form that rejects democracy, human rights, and good governance as devices of Western imperialism.

We must be ever vigilant against those who would strong arm the judiciary into adopting their preferred policies. It takes a lot of degeneration before a country falls into a dictatorship, but we should avoid these ends be avoiding these beginnings.

The ultimate failures of dictatorship cost humanity far more than the temporary failures of democracy.

Protect the people from the oppression of dictatorships.

Only the history of free peoples is worth our attention; the history of men under a despotism is merely a collection of anecdotes.

Socialism holds nothing but unhappiness for the human race. It destroys personal initiative, wipes out national pride ... and plays into the hands of the autocrats.... Socialism is the end of fanatics, the sophistry of so-called intelligentsia, and it has no place in the hearts of those who would secure and fight for freedom and preserve democracy.

I will never abuse power if elected.... This country [Russia] can never again fall under the influence of a dictator.

There is no such thing as a liberal dictatorship, because a dictator just cannot afford to be liberal.

The difference between being out of step with a dictator and being out of step with the democratic majority is practically negligible. The important thing is to be in step.