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I only fear God, and my wife - sometimes.
Lech Walesa
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Lech Walesa
Age: 80
Born: 1943
Born: September 29
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I can't imagine the right wing trying to unite without my participation.
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I allowed myself to be taken in by the intellectuals. I believed too much in the Polish intellectuals and followed their advice.
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The program of our movement stems from the fundamental moral laws and order.
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In myself I am nothing. It all comes from God and the Virgin Mary.
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Communism prevents organizations from developing by stopping the flow of information. The system is based on police and listening devices and triggers the worst characteristics in humans.
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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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Authority must be respected and chosen wisely.
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This is the moment of your defeat you have just put in the last nails in the coffin of communism.
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If there were fish in the lake, fishing would make no sense.
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What until then seemed impossible to achieve has become a fact of life. We have won the right to association in trade unions independent from the authorities, founded and shaped by the working people themselves.
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I believe that any violation of privacy is nothing good.
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It is not difficult to censor foreign news. What is difficult today is to censor one's own thoughts, To sit by and see the blind man On the sightless horse, riding into the bottomless abyss.
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I think if I got a bicycle from my father, I should give a car to my son.
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My health is very much improved.
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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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Democracy is made up of three elements. One is whether the laws support pluralistic principles. The second is whether the people take advantage of these laws. The third element is whether the peoples' wallets are thick enough to benefit from this democracy.
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Without a single shot we've managed to liberate the world of communism but now there is a need for a global solidarity.
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When I recall my own path of life I cannot but speak of the violence, hatred and lies. A lesson drawn from such experiences, however, was that we can effectively oppose violence only if we ourselves do not resort to it.
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Let the veil of silence fall presently over what happened afterwards. Silence, too, can speak out.
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