Lech Walesa Quotes

I'm a man of faith. I only fear God, and my wife - sometimes.

Lech Walesa

We hold our heads high, despite the price we have paid, because freedom is priceless.

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In myself I am nothing. It all comes from God and the Virgin Mary.

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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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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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I want to light the lights of patriotism.

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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.

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The thing that lies at the foundation of positive change, the way I see it, is service to a fellow human being.

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Authority must be respected and chosen wisely.

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I belong to a nation which over the past centuries has experienced many hardships and reverses. The world reacted with silence or with mere sympathy when Polish frontiers were crossed by invading armies and the sovereign state had to succumb to brutal force.

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Communism is a monopolistic system, economically and politically. The system suppresses individual initiative, and the 21st century is all about individualism and freedom. The development of technology supported these directions.

Lech Walesa