Lech Walesa Quotes
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Freedom must be gained step by step, slowly. Freedom is a food which must be carefully administered when people are too hungry for it.
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I had my own battle tactics.
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People are most important.
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My most ardent desire is that my country will recapture its historic opportunity for a peaceful evolution and that Poland will prove to the world that even the most complex situations can be solved by a dialogue and not by force.
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I am happy that Poland is returning to the road of pluralism and democracy.
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I'm a fatalist.
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I represent the concept that pluralism is essential, union pluralism. I made an oath about this.
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The sole and basic source of our strength is the solidarity of workers, peasants and the intelligentsia, the solidarity of the nation, the solidarity of people who seek to live in dignity, truth, and in harmony with their conscience.
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Life creates new heroes, and new heroes always find it easiest to beat up on the previous heroes.
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The hope of the nation which throughout the nineteenth century had not for a moment reconciled itself with the loss of independence, and fighting for its own freedom, fought at the same time for the freedom of other nations.
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I'm lazy. But it's the lazy people who invented the wheel and the bicycle because they didn't like walking or carrying things.
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I can't imagine the right wing trying to unite without my participation.
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Now is the era of intellect, information and the Internet.
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As a nation we have the right to decide our own affairs, to mould our own future. This does not pose any danger to anybody. Our nation is fully aware of the responsibility for its own fate in the complicated situation of the contemporary world.
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We were hoping Obama would reclaim moral leadership for America. That failed.
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We shall not yield to violence. We shall not be deprived of union freedoms. We shall never agree with sending people to prison for their convictions.
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I realize that the strivings of the Polish people gave rise, and still do so, to the feelings of understanding and solidarity all over the world.
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The people in Poland had to deal with painful reforms.
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One could always do more, faster and cleverer, but democracy has its own rhythm.
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I made the right decisions, I set everything on the right course, the reforms are going in the right direction.
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I have more than 100 honorary Ph.D.s.
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No minority should climb all over the majority.
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It is hardly possible to build anything if frustration, bitterness and a mood of helplessness prevail.
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After the war, Germany fully confessed to all its dirty tricks. It's necessary to is draw a line under the past, even if people did something evil. Until we do, wounds won't heal.