Flame of freedom

If we do not keep alive the flame of freedom that flame will go out, and every noble ideal will die with it. It is not by force of weapons but by force of ideas that we seek to spread liberty to the world’ s oppressed. It is not only ideals, but conscience that impels us to do so.

Margaret Thatcher, Baroness Thatcher of Kesteven – British politician, 1979-90 Prime Minister (1925-2013), in her speech at the Winston Chuchill Foundation Award dinner (September 29th, 1983), Quotations book 2025