Lech Walesa

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

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

We shall not yield to violence. We shall not be deprived of union freedoms. We shall never agree with sending people to prison for their convictions.

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.

I can't imagine the right wing trying to unite without my participation.

People always ask me, 'Lech, aren't you afraid of being killed?' And as an answer I shrug my shoulders.

I'm lazy. But it's the lazy people who invented the wheel and the bicycle because they didn't like walking or carrying things.

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?

I have always been and will be an enemy of communism, but I love all people.

The supply of words in the world market is plentiful but the demand is falling. Let deeds follow words now.

I must tell you that the supply of words on the world market is plentiful, but the demand is falling.

After the war, Germany fully confessed to all its dirty tricks. It's necessary to is draw a line under the past, even if people did something evil. Until we do, wounds won't heal.