Polish - Politician | September 29, 1943 -
He who puts out his hand to stop the wheel of history will have his fingers crushed.
Lech Walesa
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Our firm conviction that ours is a just cause and that we must find a peaceful way to attain our goals gave us the strength and the awareness of the limits beyond which we must not go.
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Obviously people want social calm, but if you do not let clever and ingenious people to participate, obviously there must be some dormant volcano that will erupt, sooner or later.
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I want to light the lights of patriotism.
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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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There is something of the warrior in me.
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I am no politician.
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I must tell you that the supply of words on the world market is plentiful, but the demand is falling.
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The supply of words in the world market is plentiful but the demand is falling. Let deeds follow words now.
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Our national history has so often filled us with bitterness and the feeling of helplessness.
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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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My youth passed at the time of the country's reconstruction from the ruins and ashes of the war in which my nation never bowed to the enemy paying the highest price in the struggle.
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