Quote by Lech Walesa
I belong to a nation which over the past centuries has experienced

I belong to a nation which over the past centuries has experienced many hardships and reverses. The world reacted with silence or with mere sympathy when Polish frontiers were crossed by invading armies and the sovereign state had to succumb to brutal force. – Lech Walesa

Other quotes by 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. – Lech Walesa

Category:
Food
Read Quote

My youth passed at the time of the countrys 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. – Lech Walesa

Category:
War
Read Quote

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

Category:
History
Read Quote
Other Quotes from
Sympathy
category

But what you could perhaps do with in these days is a word of most sincere sympathy. Your movement is carried internally by so strong a truth and necessity that victory in one form or another cannot elude you for long. – Hjalmar Schacht

Category:
Sympathy

Sympathy is charming, but it does not make up for pain. – Lillie Langtry

Category:
Sympathy

I have great sympathy for people that are infertile, but a life is not something you can give away. – Mary Beth Whitehead

Category:
Sympathy

I never ask for mercy and seek no ones sympathy. – Conrad Black

Category:
Sympathy

Random Quotes

The moment a man begins to talk about technique thats proof that he is fresh out of ideas. – Raymond Chandler

Category:
Talent

Somewhere on this globe, every ten seconds, there is a woman giving birth to a child. She must be found and stopped. – Sam Levenson

Category:
Pregnancy

The world needs dreamers and the world needs doers. But above all, the world needs dreamers who do. – Sarah Ban Breathnach, Simple Abundance: A Daybook of Comfort and Joy, 1996

Category:
Yearbooks

Peace and abstinence from European interferences are our objects, and so will continue while the present order of things in America remain uninterrupted. – Thomas Jefferson

Category:
Peace