- It is at this university that my predecessor as President of the Republic of Poland, Professor Lech Kaczyński, was always received with great kindness. He also had the pleasure of teaching students here, young people, he was a professor here. He always met with kindness and understanding here. Even in the most difficult times for him. I am talking about times that are already contemporary for us, I am not talking about earlier times. I am not talking about the times before 1989. I am talking about the times when he was already truly a politician, acting in the legal world of politics, not in the underground. He also experienced difficult moments, just like the President of the Republic of Poland, for that matter. He was always received kindly here. I am enormously grateful for this. Also, after the President was no longer with us, I could come here to familiarize myself with research, to exchange views and listen to views that were forbidden to be expressed at other universities. By closing lecture halls, auditoriums, offices. It was here that there was true academic freedom, freedom of scientific research, and true freedom of speech. For this, too, I thank and pay great respect to the university community, its authorities, and all of you, and to the university itself. You are a true university where freedom means freedom, and respect means respect. These are precisely the values that you have enshrined in your statute, and these values are observed here, which is sorely lacking in many other places - stated President Andrzej Duda at the inauguration of the academic year at UKSW.