Cold Quote by Boris Yeltsin

But in the West today, we see a free world that has achieved a level of prosperity and well-being unprecedented in all human history.…

— Ronald Reagan

“Freedom had no place in the Soviet System. Freedom was another word for anarchy, and that wouldn't do at all.”

— Mal Peet

Gorbachev's legacy is that he called time on communism, partially against his will, but in fact, he finished it off. Without violence. Without bloodshed.…

— Helmut Kohl

Gorbachev was acutely aware of the [USSR] economic problems, and it was central to all he did. He wanted to change the system in…

— David Hoffman

“In the Soviet Union there is freedom of speech. But it's not written anywhere that one should be free after his speech.”

— Sergey Grechishkin

Leaders' like Maduro, Erdogan and Putin hate freedom because it gives filthy peasants too much say and power over their own lives.

— Lisa Kennedy Montgomery

Scholars have been arguing for a long time whether the Soviet Union could have been turned into some kind of social democracy. I doubt…

— David Hoffman

In the years since then, those four freedoms - freedom of speech, freedom of worship, freedom from want, and freedom from fear - have…

— Lyndon B. Johnson

I left Gorbachev's office thinking that everything about him was outsized: his achievements, his mistakes, and, now, his vanity and bitterness.

— David Remnick

Mr. Gorbachev has apparently stumbled onto one of the best-kept secrets in recent Soviet history: Communism doesn't work.

— Frank Zappa

Freedom is a rare and delicate plant. Our minds tell us, and history confirms, that the great threat to freedom is the concentration of…

— Milton Friedman

The words spoken by the leader of the free world can expand the frontiers of freedom or shrink them. When Ronald Reagan called on…

— Mitt Romney