Silviu Brucan Quotes
Freedom is great, but expensive.
Silviu Brucan, Romanian Ambassador to the United States, "Eastern Europe Revisited," The World Paper, September 1992
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Alluding to the high cost of the NASA space program and playing off the "free lunch" phrase that is used so often.
This extreme position illustrates how a politician, trying to defend a particular position can get carried away and lose rational sense of balance. The air we breath is free and quite valuable—essential really. The exercise of most of our political rights is without charge. Legitimate religions do not require payment.
Silviu Brucan was a Romanian Communist politician. He became a critic of the dictatorship of Nicolae Ceaușescu. After the Romanian Revolution, Brucan engaged as a political analyst.