The Ordeal of Change (1963)
The Secret Knowledge
“No protracted war can fail to endanger the freedom of a democratic country.”
Book Three, Chapter XXII.
Democracy in America, Volume II (1840), Book Three
“Anyone fighting for freedom does not want to totally lose their freedom.”
2000-09, Who Is Ai Weiwei?, 2009
On Kate Bush
The Kate Bush Story (2014)
Context: Creativity comes from the freedom to fail. And freedom to fail comes from experimentation, and that's what gives something its individuality. And, you know, I think her courage, which is the positive way of interpreting it, or bloody-mindedness, which is the negative, is part of what gives her real value as an artist.
“Either alone would fail. Together, they can serve the cause of freedom and peace.”
1961, Berlin Crisis speech
Context: We will at all times be ready to talk, if talk will help. But we must also be ready to resist with force, if force is used upon us. Either alone would fail. Together, they can serve the cause of freedom and peace.
