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"The crusade against Communism was even more imaginary than the specter of Communism."

"We started filming in 1993 which was only four years after the fall of communism. The difference in Budapest over the last five years has been remarkable."

"We believe firmly that Communism internally and externally can and must be fought without resort to the Communist tactics of the suppression of all individual freedom."

"Communism to me is one-third practice and two-thirds explanation."
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"But whether the risks to which liberty exposes us are moral or physical our right to liberty involves the right to run them. A man who is not free to risk his neck as an aviator or his soul as a heretic is not free at all; and the right to liberty begins, not at the age of 21 years but 21 seconds."

"Belief in God meant belief in the old tribal idol called Jehovah, and I would not pretend I did not know whether it existed or not."

"People become attached to their burdens sometimes more than the burdens are attached to them."

"The man with toothache thinks everyone happy whose teeth are sound.The poverty stricken man makes the same mistake about the rich man."

"Better keep yourself clean and bright; you are the window through which you must see the world."

"The weak may not be admired and hero-worshipped; but they are by no means disliked or shunned; and they never seem to have the least difficulty in marrying people who are too good for them. They may fail in emergencies; but life is not one long emergency: it is mostly a string of situations for which no exceptional strength is needed, and with which even rather weak people can cope if they have a stronger partner to help them out."

"A pessimist is a man who thinks everybody is as nasty as himself, and hates them for it."

"My method is to take the utmost trouble to find the right thing to say, and then to say it with the utmost levity."
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