Free World Quotes - Page 2

• President Reagan was a leader at a time when the American people most needed leadership. He outlined a vision that captured the imagination of the free world, a vision that toppled the Communist empire and freed countless millions.

  Dennis Hastert

  Leadership, People, Imagination

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• Emmy Lou Harris introduced me to the work of the Vietnam Veterans of America foundation and the Campaign for a Land Mine Free World.

  Mary Chapin Carpenter

  Land, America, Foundation

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• We seek a peaceful world, a prosperous world, a free world, a world of good neighbors, living on terms of equality and mutual respect, as Canada and the United States have lived for generations.

  Harry S. Truman

  Presidential, Peaceful, Canada

  United States. President (1945-1953 : Truman), Harry S. Truman (1963). “Harry S. Truman: Containing the Public Messages, Speeches, and Statements of the President, 1945-53”

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• The western world, the free world, loses what it cherishes most, and that is freedom and liberty we've seen for a couple of hundred years in this grand experiment that we call democracy.

  Tommy Franks

  Couple, Years, Liberty

  "General Tommy Franks". Interview with Marvin R. Shanken, www.cigaraficionado.com. November, 2003.

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• We remember Ronald Reagan as a man who maximized his gifts from an unknown to an actor to a Governor to the leader of the Free World.

  Richard Burr

  Men, Leader, Actors

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• I strongly believe that we can create a poverty-free world, if we want to.... In that kind of world, [the] only place you can see poverty is in the museum. When school children will be on a tour of the poverty museum, they will be horrified to see the misery and indignity of human beings. They will blame their forefathers for tolerating this inhuman condition to continue in a massive way.

  Muhammad Yunus

  Children, Believe, School

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• It's a sad day when the leaders of the free world engage in such deception and trickery. I voted against this unnecessary war and will continue to argue that the best way to support our troops is to bring them home.

  Major Owens

  War, Home, Hype

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• If communist unions ever gain a position to exercise influence in the transport lanes of the world, the free world will have suffered a staggering blow.

  Robert Kennedy

  Exercise, Blow, World

  Source: www.npr.org

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• The land of unlimited opportunity was for me, for a long time, impossible to reach. The wall, barbed wire and the order to shoot at those who tried to leave limited my access to the free world.

  Angela Merkel

  Wall, War, Opportunity

  "German Chancellor Merkel addresses Congress". www.cnn.com. November 3, 2009.

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• If Israel falls to the terrorists, the entire free world will tremble. To forsake Israel now would be tantamount to forsaking Great Britain in 1940. It is unthinkable, and it is unthinkable because the world wants to know if we believe freedom is worth fighting for.

  Tom DeLay

  Believe, Fall, Fighting

  "DeLay makes intense appeal for Jewish voters" by Tom Curry, www.nbcnews.com. September 1, 2004.

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• I spent seven years writing The Free World. There are a lot of things I accomplished there that I'm very proud of, but I didn't want to spend another seven years writing a book like that.

  David Bezmozgis

  Book, Writing, Years

  The Believer interview, logger.believermag.com. September 23, 2014.

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• Fashion is free speech, and one of the privileges, if not always one of the pleasures, of a free world

  Alison Lurie

  Fashion, Inspiration, World

  1981 The Language of Clothes.

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• Che Guevara taught us we could dare to have confidence in ourselves, confidence in our abilities. He instilled in us the conviction that struggle is our only recourse. He, was a citizen of the free world that together we are in the process of building. That is why we say that Che Guevara is also African and Burkinabè.

  Thomas Sankara

  Struggle, Self Confidence, Taught Us

  "We are Heirs of the World's Revolutions: Lessons from Thomas Sankara" by Akinyemi Adeseye, May 15, 2010.

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• In communist countries, you execute your poets. In the free world, the poets execute themselves.

  Kate Braverman

  Country, Poetry, World

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• If I could get one message to you it would be this: the future of this country and the welfare of the free world depends upon our success in space. There is no room in this country for any but a fully cooperative, urgently motivated all-out effort toward space leadership. No one person, no one company, no one government agency, has a monopoly on the competence, the missions, or the requirements for the space program.

  Lyndon B. Johnson

  Country, Space, Agency

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• On the other hand, if the free world is concerned with how a new Palestinian leader governs, then the peace process will have a real chance to succeed.

  Natan Sharansky

  Peace, Real, Hands

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• For every idealistic peacemaker willing to renounce his self-defence in favour of a weapons-free world, there is at least one warmaker anxious to exploit the other's good intentions.

  Margaret Thatcher

  Self, Weapons, Favour

  "Statecraft: Strategies for a Changing World". Book by Margaret Thatcher, April 16, 2002.

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• For the eight years I was president I never let my dream of a nuclear-free world fade from my mind.

  Ronald Reagan

  Dream, Eight, Years

  Ronald Reagan (1990). “An American Life”, p.550, Simon and Schuster

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• We create institutions and policies on the basis of the way we make assumptions about us and others. We accept the fact that we will always have poor people around us. So we have had poor people around us. If we had believed that poverty is unacceptable to us, and that it should not belong to a civilized society, we would have created appropriate institutions and policies to create a poverty-free world.

  Muhammad Yunus

  Business, Believe, People

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• I have busted more hippies' noses than all the narcs in the free world.

  Ted Nugent

  Hippie, Noses, World

  "America Now" with Larry Kudlow and Jim Cramer, www.nationalreview.com. May 17, 2002.

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• I don't know if a country (America) where the people are so ignorant of reality and of history, if you can call that a free world.

  Jane Fonda

  Country, Reality, America

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• As you probably know, some American politicians and American journalists refer to Washington, DC as the "capital of the free world." But it seems to me that Brussels, which boasts 1,000 years of history and which serves as the capital of Belgium, the home of the European Union, and the headquarters for NATO, this city has its own legitimate claim to that title.

  Joe Biden

  Home, Years, Cities

  "Biden Says Brussels Could Be 'Capital of the Free World'", www.foxnews.com. May 25, 2010.

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• It didn't take long to recognise the shortcomings of the Soviet regime and to see the values of the free world.

  Garry Kasparov

  Long, World, Regimes

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• The Ambassador and the General were briefing me on the....the vast majority of Iraqis want to live in a peaceful, free world. And we will find these people and we will bring them to justice.

  George W. Bush

  People, Justice, Peaceful

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• Keep on rockin' in the free world.

  Neil Young

  World

  "Rockin' in the FreeWorld" (song) (1989)

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