Mike Rogers Quotes

In all the Arab countries I have been in, the people have said that they were not demonstrating for food. They wanted dignity.

My grand affair appears settled, for America is certain of her independence, humanity has gained her cause, and liberty will never be without a place of refuge.

This liberty will look easy by and by when nobody dies to get it.

Democracy is a destiny of humanity which cannot be averted. It can be delayed but not defeated.

You will be emancipated from tyranny and oppression …

Wherever people long to be free, they will find a friend in the United States

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 freedom movement is built around the principle of democracy and universality of freedom.

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.

Freedom is the most contagious virus known to man.

It is possible to read the history of this country as one long struggle to extend the liberties established in our Constitution to everyone in America.

The world is not a big Red sea in which this country is being scuttled, but a vast arena of political upheaval, in which the quest for freedom, ever stronger, has overthrown the colonial empires of the past. It isn't a tidy world, nor is it a secure one. But it is one in which the United States set the revolutionary example.

Radicalism is a label that is always applied to people who are endeavoring to get freedom.

All the efforts of Lafayette, Kosciuszko and Garibaldi, and all the faith of Mazzini, Mickiewicz and Michelet, were defeated by the fundamental truth that the people they sought to liberate and make happy were simply not interested.

There are some people who believe that some people are not yet ready for democracy … everybody in the world is ready for liberty. It is a question of how you do it.

Freedom possesses many meanings. It speaks not merely in terms of political and religious liberty but also in terms of economic and social progress.

I come from people who dreamed of a free democratic system. I believe so strongly in the process and equal access.

We've been blessed with the opportunity to stand for something - for liberty and freedom and fairness. And these are things worth fighting for, worth devoting our lives to.

In this era of the global village, the tide of democracy is running. And it will not cease, not in China, not in South Africa, not in any corner of this earth, where the simple idea of democracy and freedom has taken root.

The power of the people and the power of reason are one.

While it may take generations of nurturing, nations founded on and grounded in freedom will eventually overcome and prosper. Once free, folks rarely accept anything less, and that includes Iraqis.

For the freedoms our founding fathers not only dreamed about, but made into reality. It is that same pursuit of freedom today that is helping to make our world a safer place.

Even in the darkest regions, people have discovered their right of freedom.

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

The Arab Spring showed that people are not going to wait for an American president to make good on his big talk about democracy and human rights; they are going to fight for those rights themselves and overthrow pro-American dictators who stand in their way.