Lech Walesa Quotes
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I'm a fatalist.
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I am happy that Poland is returning to the road of pluralism and democracy.
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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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Life creates new heroes, and new heroes always find it easiest to beat up on the previous heroes.
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I have always been and will be an enemy of communism, but I love all people.
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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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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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You should go to the polls, organize yourself. But once lawmakers are chosen, they must be respected.
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I had my own battle tactics.
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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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Now is the era of intellect, information and the Internet.
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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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We were hoping Obama would reclaim moral leadership for America. That failed.
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I can't imagine the right wing trying to unite without my participation.
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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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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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The people in Poland had to deal with painful reforms.
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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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No minority should climb all over the majority.
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One could always do more, faster and cleverer, but democracy has its own rhythm.
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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.
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There is something of the warrior in me.
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Technology helped end communism by bringing in information from the outside.