Who would have predicted... that Dubcek, who brought the…

When I first started to take photographs in Czechoslovakia, I met this old gentleman, this old photographer, who told me a few practical things.…

— Josef Koudelka

Wolfe was drinking beer and looking at pictures of snowflakes in a book someone had sent him from Czechoslovakia... ...Wolfe seemed absorbed in the…

— Rex Stout

The Pact of Munich is signed. Czechoslovakia as a power is out.

— Alfred Jodl

I was 25 years old and pursuing my doctorate in economics when I was allowed to spend six months of postgraduate studies in Naples,…

— Vaclav Klaus

This is not 1968 and the invasion of Czechoslovakia, where Russia can threaten its neighbors, occupy a capital, overthrow a government, and get away…

— Condoleezza Rice

We are a nation that worships speed and power. And for good reason. Without power we would still be part of England and everybody…

— P. J. O'Rourke

“Aomame imagined 1926 Czechoslovakia: The First World War had ended, and the country was freed from the long rule of the Hapsburg Dynasty. As…

— Haruki Murakami

If I hadn't left Czechoslovakia, I would have been dead.

— Tom Stoppard

“Very often the test of one's allegiance to a cause or to a people is precisely the willingness to stay the course when things…

— Christopher Hitchens

When I went to Czechoslovakia under the old Communist regime one day in the '80s, I thought to myself whatever I do, whatever happens…

— Christopher Hitchens

“When, in May, tensions reached a high point, London warned Berlin that if it attacked Czechoslovakia and the French were embroiled as well, "His…

— Madeleine Albright

I will begin by saying what everybody would like to ignore or forget... we have sustained a total and unmitigated defeat... All is over.…

— Winston Churchill

When I was first in Czechoslovakia, it occurred to me that I work in a society where as a writer everything goes and nothing…

— Philip Roth

“The Czech Republic. Czechoslovakia hasn't existed for almost twenty years. So unless her parents are visiting 1992, they're in the Czech Republic.”

— Lauren Morrill

In Czechoslovakia, we consider Kafka a very funny man. A humorist.

— Milos Forman