Timothy Garton Ash

“Free speech is the whole thing, the whole ball game. Free speech is life itself.”

“You cannot have a free country without a free press.”

“History is a merciless judge.”

“The past is another country, but it is a country to which we all have a passport.”

“Facts are subversive. Subversive of the claims of charismatic leaders and democratic majorities.”

“Populism is not a style. It's a political strategy based on the identification and mobilization of a single 'people' against both external and internal enemies.”

“To be a European is to be a modern-day Roman. We have a common citizenship, a common law, a common currency, common borders.”

“Europe's story is, in essence, the story of the last thousand years of liberty.”