More from Osama bin Laden
- On the September 11, 2001 attacks, in CNN broadcast of an interview that Al-Jazeera conducted in October 2001 (31 January 2002).
We love this kind of death for Allah’s cause as much as you like to live.
Interview conducted by Peter Arnett in Afghanistan in 1997. Transcript of Osama bin Laden [television] interview by Peter Arnett, March 1997, Reported in Pierre-André Taguieff, Rising from the Muck: The New Anti-Semitism in Europe, translated …When people see a strong horse and a weak horse, by nature they will like the strong horse.
Video interview, quoted in Analyzing Leaders, Presidents and Terrorists by Diane E. Holloway page 325, with NPR transcript (9 November 2001)
More about freedom
The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.
Thomas Jefferson1743–1826Letter to William Stephens Smith (13 November 1787). Manuscript at the Library of Congress.The condition upon which God hath given liberty to man is eternal vigilance.
John Philpot Curran1750–1817Often credited to Thomas Jefferson
Benjamin Franklin1706–1790This was first used by Franklin for the Pennsylvania Assembly in its “Reply to the Governor” (November 11, 1755) Reply to the Governor