"General Secretary Gorbachev, if you seek peace, if you seek prosperity for the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe, if you seek liberalization:  Come here to this gate!  Mr. Gorbachev, open this gate!  Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall!"

"We who live in free market societies believe that growth, prosperity and ultimately human fulfillment, are created from the bottom up, not the government down.  Only when the human spirit is allowed to invent and create, only when individuals are given a personal stake in deciding economic policies and benefiting from their success -- only then can societies remain economically alive, dynamic, progressive and free.  TRUST THE PEOPLE."  Ronald Reagan, 1981

From a speech by the future Pope John Paul II

"You must be strong, my brothers and sisters!  You must be strong with the strength that faith gives!  You must be strong with the strength of faith!  You must be faithful!  You need this strength today, more than any other period of our history...You must be strong with love, which is stronger than death....  When we are strong with the Spirit of God, we are also strong with the faith of man....  There is therefore no need to fear.... So... I beg you:  Never lose your trust, do not be defeated, do not be discouraged....  Always seek spiritual power from Him from whom countless generations of our fathers and mothers have found it.  Never detach yourselves from Him.  Never lose your spiritual freedom!"  Blonia Krakowskie,  Krokow Poland, June 10, 1979  (Pope John Paul II)