31 Lech Walesa Quotes

Lech Walesa quotes

1. Nie chce, ale musze. (often written Nie chcem, ale muszem. to underline the accent)

2. Panu to ja moge co najwyzej noge podac

3. Jestem za, a nawet przeciw.

4. Sa plusy dodatnie i plusy ujemne

5. Takiego mamy prezydenta, na jakiego sobie zasluzylismy.

6. Without a single shot we managed to liberate the world from communism. ... but now there is a need for global solidarity.

7. We've had enough generals (an allusion to dictatorial ruler general Jaruzelski). What Poland needs most are the American generals: General Motors, General Electric, and General Dynamics.

8. The Polish Communists are just like radishes. They are only red on the outside'

9. Powinna byc lewa noga i prawa noga. A ja bede posrodku.

10. Gdyby w jeziorze byly ryby, wedkowanie nie mialoby sensu.

1. The fall of the Berlin Wall makes for nice pictures. But it all started in the shipyards.

2. I made the right decisions, I set everything on the right course, the reforms are going in the right direction.

3. Up to the 20th century, we can say that this whole period was an Earth epoch, 'Earth' meaning the riches of the earth, simple physical work. That is why there were wars, the movement of frontiers, war over riches.

4. I think if I got a bicycle from my father, I should give a car to my son.

5. You should go to the polls, organize yourself. But once lawmakers are chosen, they must be respected.

6. If once again Germany destabilizes Europe, then Germany will be not be divided again, but wiped off the map. East and West have the necessary technology in order to enforce this verdict. If Germany begins again, there is no other solution.

7. There is something of the warrior in me.

8. Communism is a monopolistic system, economically and politically.

9. [Without Pope John Paul II] there would be no end of Communism or at least much later, and the end would have been bloody.

10. You have riches and freedom here but I feel no sense of faith or direction. You have so many computers, why don't you use them in the search for love?

11. 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.

12. We have travelled so far in our technical advancements that we are no longer located in our own countries.

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

14. When he saw injustice, he wanted to do away with it. He saw communism, and he wanted to put an end to it.

15. When I was fighting communism, there was rapid development of satellite television and cell phones, and communism, to survive, would have to block all these information devices.

16. Irrespective of todays judgment and the price we had to pay in this generation, we were able to close an epoch of divisions, different blocs and borders, opening the way for an era of globalization.

17. For now, capitalism is working to produce more money but does not see the people. This problem is getting worse across the world.

18. If there were fish in the lake, fishing would make no sense.

19. 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.

20. I only fear God, and my wife - sometimes.

21. I decided to get to know my opponents and their arguments.