Freedoms
Champion : The Citizens of the United States
" After all our struggles to restore America,
to revive confidence in our country, hope for our future, after
all our hard-won victories earned through the patience and courage
of every citizen, we cannot, must not, and will not turn back. We
will finish our job. How could we do less? We're Americans."
President Ronald Wilson Reagan
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Freedoms Champion: The United
States Military
"Some people live their entire lifetime and
wonder if they have ever made a difference, United States Marines
do not have that problem."
President Ronald Wilson Reagan
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Freedoms Champion: President
George W. Bush
"American's are a free people, who know that
freedom is the right of every person and the future of every nation.
The liberty we prize is not America's gift to the world, it is God's
gift to humanity."
President Bush, State of the Union 2002 |

Freedoms Champion : President
Ronald W. Reagan
"There is one sign the Soviets can make that
would be unmistakable, that would advance dramatically the cause
of freedom and peace. General Secretary Gorbachev, if you seek peace,
if you seek prosperity for the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe,
if you seek liberalization : come here to this gate! Mr. Gorbachev,
open this gate ! Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall !"
President Reagan Brandenburg Gate June
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Freedoms Champion : President
George Washington
"Labor to keep alive in your breast that little
spark of celestial fire called conscience."
"The marvel of all history is the patience
with which men and women submit to burdens unnecessarily laid upon
them by their governments."
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Freedoms Champion : President
Abraham Lincoln
"Whenever I hear someone arguing for slavery
I feel a strong impusle to see it tried on them personally."
"Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if
you want to test a man's character, give him power."
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Freedoms
Champion : Martin Luther King Jr.
"The ultimate measure of a man is not where
he stands at times of comfort, but where he stands at times of challenge
and controversy."
"We must stand together as brothers or perish
as fools."
"Freedom is never given voluntarily by the
oppressor, it must be demanded by the oppressed."
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Freedoms Champion : Milton
Friedman - Economist
"Underlying most arguements against the free
market is a lack of belief in freedom itself."
"Most economic fallacies arrive from the tendancy
to assume that there is a fixed pie, that one party wins only at
the expense of another."
"Concentrated power is not rendered harmless
by the good intentions of those who create it."
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Freedoms
Champion : P.M. Margeret Thatcher
"If you just set out to be liked, you would
be prepared to compromise on anything at any time, and you would
achieve nothing."
"If you lead a country like Britain, a strong
country, a country which has taken a lead in world affairs in good
times and in bad, a country that is always reliable, then you have
to have a touch of iron about you."
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Freedoms Champion : Fredrick
A Hayek - Economist
"Perhaps the fact that we have seen millions
voting themselves into complete dependence on a tyrant has made
our generation understand that to choose one's government is not
necessarily to secure freedom."
"Liberty not only means that the individual
has both the opportunity and burden of choice; it also means that
they must bear the consequences of their actions... Liberty and
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Freedoms
Champion : P.M. Sir Winston Churchill
"Hitler knows that he will have to break us
in this island or lose the war. If we can stand up to him, all Europe
may be free, and life in the world may move forward into broad,
sunlit uplands. But if we fall, then the whole world, including
the United States, including all that we have known and cared for,
will sink into the abyss of a new Dark Age…. Let us therefore
brace ourselves to our duties, and so bear ourselves that, if the
British Empire and its Commonwealth last for a thousand years, men
will still say, 'This was their finest hour.' "
House of Commons June 18, 1940 |

Freedoms
Champion : The Unknown Guardian
One of the most unforgetable moments of valor in
the fight for Freedom happened in Bejing, China in 1989. An unknown
man stands in the way of a column of tanks as the Red Army floods
into Tiananmen Square to put down prodemocracy demonstrations.
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Freedoms
Champion : The Liberated
The Fall of the Berlin Wall symbolized the end of
the repression of Eastern Europe. After enduring so much for so
long, Americans rejoiced with them as they tasted freedom for the
first time is decades.
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Freedoms Champion : Dwight
D. Eisenhower
"Americans, indeed all freemen, remember that
in the final choice, a soldier's pack is not so heavy a burden as
a prisoner's chains."
"History does not long entrust the care of
freedom to the weak or the timid."

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