Quotes by Lech Walesa

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?

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.

I most sincerely wish that the world in which we live be free from the threat of a nuclear holocaust and from the ruinous arms race. It is my cherished desire that peace be not separated from freedom which is the right of every nation. This I desire and for this I pray.

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

As a nation we have the right to decide our own affairs, to mould our own future. This does not pose any danger to anybody. Our nation is fully aware of the responsibility for its own fate in the complicated situation of the contemporary world.

My health is very much improved.

Our national history has so often filled us with bitterness and the feeling of helplessness.

He who puts out his hand to stop the wheel of history will have his fingers crushed.

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.

I hope to work harder than ever to help people around the world.