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Statement By the President


Supporting Human Rights and Democracy: The U. S. Record 2003-2004
Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights and Labor

The progress of liberty is a powerful trend.  Yet, we also know that liberty, if not defended, can be lost.  The success of freedom is not determined by some dialectic of history.  By definition, the success of freedom rests upon the choices and the courage of free peoples ...

                                                                                   -- President George W. Bush
                                                                                                   November 6, 2003 

Remarks by the President at the 20th Anniversary of the National Endowment for Democracy
Washington, D. C.