We should never forget those on whose shoulders we stand and those who paid the supreme price for freedom.

Freedom does not mean being free of something, but to be free to do something.

Neither the chains of dictatorship nor the fetters of oppression can keep down the forces of freedom for long.

We will be very persistent when it comes to enforcing freedom, justice, and self-determination on the European continent.

As a 7-year-old child, I saw the Wall being erected. No one - although it was a stark violation of international law - believed at the time that one ought to intervene militarily in order to protect citizens of the GDR and whole Eastern bloc, of the consequences of that - namely, to live in lack of freedom for many, many years.

Where globalization means, as it so often does, that the rich and powerful now have new means to further enrich and empower themselves at the cost of the poorer and weaker, we have a responsibility to protest in the name of universal freedom.