“They were singing in French, but the melody was freedom and any American could understand that.”– Audie Murphy Related Quotes “The progress of freedom depends more upon the maintenance of peace, the spread of commerce, and the diffusion of education, than upon the labors of cabinets and foreign offices.”– Richard Cobden “The only sure bulwark of continuing liberty is a government strong enough to protect the interests of the people, and a people strong enough and well enough informed to maintain its sovereign control over the goverment.”– Franklin D. Roosevelt “Without economic development, any potential for political openness and freedom will be questionable.”– Jose Maria Aznar