Lech Walesa Quotes

Freedom must be gained step by step, slowly. Freedom is a food which must be carefully administered when people are too hungry for it.

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

Dictators and oppressors should continue to fear me because I will be here for a long time.

I got politics and economics moving and then others took over.

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

The politicians always told us that the Cold War stand-off could only change by way of nuclear war. None of them believed that such systemic change was possible.

Lying at the root of the social agreements of 1980 are the courage, sense of responsibility, and the solidarity of the working people. Both sides have then recognized that an accord must be reached if...

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 f...

I belong to the generation of workers who, born in the villages and hamlets of rural Poland, had the opportunity to acquire education and find employment in industry, becoming in the course conscious...