I'm a fatalist.

The fall of the Berlin Wall makes for nice pictures. But it all started in the shipyards.

— Lech Walesa

I made the right decisions, I set everything on the right course, the reforms are going in the right direction.

— Lech Walesa

Up to the 20th century, we can say that this whole period was an Earth epoch, 'Earth' meaning the riches of the earth, simple…

— Lech Walesa

I think if I got a bicycle from my father, I should give a car to my son.

— Lech Walesa

You should go to the polls, organize yourself. But once lawmakers are chosen, they must be respected.

— Lech Walesa

If once again Germany destabilizes Europe, then Germany will be not be divided again, but wiped off the map. East and West have the…

— Lech Walesa

I risked my life.

— Lech Walesa

There is something of the warrior in me.

— Lech Walesa

Communism is a monopolistic system, economically and politically.

— Lech Walesa

[Without Pope John Paul II] there would be no end of Communism or at least much later, and the end would have been bloody.

— 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…

— Lech Walesa

The hope of the nation which throughout the nineteenth century had not for a moment reconciled itself with the loss of independence, and fighting…

— Lech Walesa

We have travelled so far in our technical advancements that we are no longer located in our own countries.

— Lech Walesa

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

— Lech Walesa

When he saw injustice, he wanted to do away with it. He saw communism, and he wanted to put an end to it.

— Lech Walesa