Communism is a monopolistic system, economically and politically.

Freedom may be the soul of humanity, but often you have to struggle to prove it.

This conviction brought me, in the summer of 1978, to the Free Trade Unions - formed by a group of courageous and dedicated people who came out in the defense of the workers' rights and dignity.

We need a global parliament, a global government and possibly a global ministry for security.

Our firm conviction that ours is a just cause and that we must find a peaceful way to attain our goals gave us the strength and the awareness of the limits beyond which we must not go.

I most sincerely wish that the world in which we live be free from the threat of a nuclear holocaust and from the ruinous arms race. It is my cherished desire that peace be not separated from freedom which is the right of every nation. This I desire and for this I pray.

[Without Pope John Paul II] there would be no end of Communism or at least much later, and the end would have been bloody.