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

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

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 1987.

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."

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."

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."

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."

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."

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 responsibility are inseperable."

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.

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.

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."