Believe me, the drug of freedom is universally potent.

If you have to fight an enemy at a critical point in time, and you have an ally who happens to be a dictator, you don't say: Let's stop fighting right now, because you're not a democrat. That would be ridiculous.

As soon as people become a little less fearful, they will also begin demanding more freedom.

When a man is afraid and accedes to fear, he will always find arguments to justify his own surrender.

Free societies are societies in which the right of dissent is protected.

Bush explained his fundamental concept to me, that freedom is not an American invention, but rather a gift from God to all people.

Japan is not a Western democracy. The Japanese have kept their traditions, culture and heritage, but they have joined the community of free nations.