I just ran across a book review quoting this paragraph by Isaiah Berlin that is surely a better description of the human heart than Bush’s “everyone desires freedom” version:

Man is incapable of self-completion, and therefore never wholly predictable; fallible, a complex combination of opposites, some reconcilable, others incapable of being resolved or harmonized; unable to cease from his search for truth, happiness, novelty, freedom, but with no guarantee…of being able to attain them.

Granted, it wouldn’t make a rousing passage in a presidential speech.