Quote by Lech Walesa
He who puts out his hand to stop the wheel of history will have hi

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

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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. – Lech Walesa

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Freedom
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Dictators and oppressors should continue to fear me because I will be here for a long time. – Lech Walesa

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Fear
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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

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Change
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History
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All the gossip and craziness becomes a kind of sustained narrative which, in turn, can become history. Its scary. – Barbara Kruger

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History

A nation that forgets its past can function no better than an individual with amnesia. – David McCullough

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History

History — that little sewer where man loves to wallow. – Francis Ponge

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History

The Carter Center has the only existing international taskforce on disease eradication. Which means a total elimination of a disease on the face of the Earth. In the history of the world, theres only been one disease eradicated: smallpox. The second disease, I think, is gonna be guinea worm. – Jimmy Carter

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History

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Men of genius are meteors destined to burn themselves out in lighting up their age. – Napoleon Bonaparte, Discours de Lyon, 1771

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Let people have an education and you cant stop them. – La Monte Young

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Hope travels through, nor quits us when we die. – Alexander Pope

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