As hope kindles hope, millions more will find it. By our efforts, we have lit a fire as well a fire in the minds of men. It warms those who feel its power, it burns those who fight its progress, and one day this untamed fire of freedom will reach the darkest corners of our world.
George Walker Bush
For decades, the circle of liberty and security and development has been expanding in our world. This progress has brought unity to Europe, self-government to Latin America and Asia, and new hope to Africa. Now we have the historic chance to widen the circle even further, to fight radicalism and terror with justice and dignity, to achieve a true peace, founded on human freedom.
George Walker Bush
The case for trade is not just monetary, but moral. Economic freedom creates habits of liberty. And habits of liberty create expectations of democracy.
George Walker Bush
The most powerful force in the world is not a weapon or a nation but a truth: that we are spiritual beings, and that freedom is "the soul's right to breathe."
George Walker Bush
A political candidate who jumps to conclusions without knowing the facts is not a person you want as your commander in chief.
George Walker Bush
I made it very plain: We will not have an all-volunteer army. [Crowd boos] Let me restate that. We will not have a draft.
George Walker Bush
I don't think you can win it. But I think you can create conditions so that those who use terror as a tool are less acceptable in parts of the world.
George Walker Bush