Our national history has so often filled us with bitterness and the feeling of helplessness. – Lech Walesa
Dictators and oppressors should continue to fear me because I will be here for a long time. – Lech Walesa

Our national history has so often filled us with bitterness and the feeling of helplessness. – Lech Walesa
Dictators and oppressors should continue to fear me because I will be here for a long time. – Lech Walesa
The politicians always told us that the Cold War stand-off could only change by way of nuclear war. None of them believed that such systemic change was possible. – Lech Walesa
Lying at the root of the social agreements of 1980 are the courage, sense of responsibility, and the solidarity of the working people. Both sides have then recognized that an accord must be reached if bloodshed is to be prevented. – Lech Walesa
One of the deepest impulses in man is the impulse to record, – to scratch a drawing on a tusk or keep a diary, to collect sagas and heap cairns. This instinct as to the enduring value of the past is, one might say, the very basis of civilization. – John Jay Chapman, Memories and Milestones