Friday, August 7, 2009

Book Quotes: Communism vs Democracy

From The American Patriot's Almanac by William J. Bennett and John T.E. Cribb:

ON JUNE 26, 1963, John F. Kennedy became the first president to stand on the west side of the Berlin Wall and denounce totalitarianism....

....Freedom has many difficulties and democracy is not perfect, but we have never had to put a wall up to keep our people in, to prevent them from leaving us .... [The Berlin Wall is] an offense not only against history but an offense against humanity, separating families, dividing husbands and wives and brothers and sisters, and dividing a people who wish to be joined together ....

Freedom is indivisible, and when one man is enslaved, all are not free....

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