Quotes from George Walker Bush

The security of our world is found in the advancing rights of mankind.

Because free peoples believe in the future, free peoples will own the future.

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.

The advance of liberty is the path to both a safer and better world.

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.

The case for trade is not just monetary, but moral. Economic freedom creates habits of liberty. And habits of liberty create expectations of democracy.

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."

Never tire, never falter, and never fail.

Destroying human life in the hopes of saving human life is not ethical...

Liberty can be delayed, but it cannot be denied.

Sometimes, words have consequences you don't intend them to mean.

A political candidate who jumps to conclusions without knowing the facts is not a person you want as your commander in chief.

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.

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.

We will build new ships to carry man forward into the universe, to gain a new foothold on the moon, and to prepare for new journeys to worlds beyond our own.

See, free nations are peaceful nations. Free nations don't attack each other. Free nations don't develop weapons of mass destruction.

There are some who feel like that, you know, the conditions are such that they can attack us there. My answer is, bring 'em on.

The best ethics course is to handcuff one of the bastards.

We are working hard to convince both the Indians and the Pakis there's a way to deal with their problems without going to war.

Our war on terror begins with al Qaeda, but it does not end there. It will not end until every terrorist group of global reach has been found, stopped and defeated.

I can hear you, the rest of the world hears you. And the people who knocked these buildings down will hear all of us soon.

Those in authority should take appropriate precautions to protect our citizens. But we will not allow this enemy to win the war by changing our way of life or restricting our freedoms.

If we're an arrogant nation, they'll resent us; if we're a humble nation, but strong, they'll welcome us.

If you're a single mother with two childrenwhich is the toughest job in America, as far as I'm concernedyou're working hard to put food on your family.