I just happen to know quite a lot of what happened in…

In Czechoslovakia in 1968, communist reformers appealed to democratic ideals that were deeply rooted in the country's pre-second world war past.

— Adam Michnik

“Well, a lot’s happened since I last showered.”

— Nicki Elson

There's a lot that's happened in my life that maybe I didn't want to happen, but I suppose it's led me to exactly where…

— Matthew Healy

I've been through a lot in my career, and a lot of it happened so fast.

— Darrelle Revis

“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

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

— Tom Stoppard

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

“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

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

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

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

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

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