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The worldwide, agelong struggle between fascism and democracy will not stop when the fighting ends in Germany and Japan.

The transition from dictatorship to democracy is always very difficult, and if you read a history of any country that went through this, it wasn't easy. And, you know, you don't end dictatorship one day and next day you have fully fledged democracy.

In this era of the global village, the tide of democracy is running. And it will not cease, not in China, not in South Africa, not in any corner of this earth, where the simple idea of democracy and freedom has taken root.

Those who abhors democracy would rarely immigrate to an authoritarian state if they have to.

Only two countries in this hemisphere are not democratic, but many countries in both Central and South America, and in the Caribbean, are really fragile democracies.

Democracy cannot survive without the guidance of a creative minority.

A global democracy works only when countries trust one another.

Democracies, unlike dictatorships, are forgiving and generous, but they cannot survive unless they fight.

There are big countries and small countries, rich and poor, those with long democratic traditions and those still finding their way to democracy.

Conflict does not lead to stability in the world.