Lech Walesa

It is hardly possible to build anything if frustration, bitterness and a mood of helplessness prevail.

— Lech Walesa

I can't imagine the right wing trying to unite without my participation.

— Lech Walesa

Life creates new heroes, and new heroes always find it easiest to beat up on the previous heroes.

— Lech Walesa

We need a global parliament, a global government and possibly a global ministry for security.

— Lech Walesa

The world needs leaders of vision instead of leaders on television.

— Lech Walesa

Building democracy as an imposition from abroad is a form of imperialism.

— Lech Walesa

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

— Lech Walesa

Without a single shot we've managed to liberate the world of communism but now there is a need for a global solidarity.

— Lech Walesa

Communism prevents organizations from developing by stopping the flow of information. The system is based on police and listening devices and triggers…

— Lech Walesa

I don't have regrets I didn't spend more time with my family because I've lived my life to the full, and you…

— Lech Walesa

Tomorrow there will be no division to Europe and Asia. These are old concepts that would remain only on maps. Everything will…

— Lech Walesa

My most ardent desire is that my country will recapture its historic opportunity for a peaceful evolution and that Poland will prove…

— Lech Walesa

Irrespective of todays judgment and the price we had to pay in this generation, we were able to close an epoch of…

— Lech Walesa

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

— Lech Walesa

I believed it would succeed. It was Polish Solidarity and its victory that put an end to the old era when what…

— 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…

— Lech Walesa

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

— Lech Walesa

Let the veil of silence fall presently over what happened afterwards. Silence, too, can speak out.

— Lech Walesa

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

— Lech Walesa

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

— Lech Walesa

In myself I am nothing. It all comes from God and the Virgin Mary.

— Lech Walesa

I am overjoyed that I do not need a heart transplant at this time.

— Lech Walesa

I'm lazy. But it's the lazy people who invented the wheel and the bicycle because they didn't like walking or carrying things.

— Lech Walesa

In many parts of the world the people are searching for a solution which would link the two basic values: peace and…

— Lech Walesa

I realize that the strivings of the Polish people gave rise, and still do so, to the feelings of understanding and solidarity…

— Lech Walesa

I allowed myself to be taken in by the intellectuals. I believed too much in the Polish intellectuals and followed their advice.

— Lech Walesa

When I recall my own path of life I cannot but speak of the violence, hatred and lies. A lesson drawn from…

— Lech Walesa

My youth passed at the time of the country's reconstruction from the ruins and ashes of the war in which my nation…

— Lech Walesa

What until then seemed impossible to achieve has become a fact of life. We have won the right to association in trade…

— Lech Walesa

The sole and basic source of our strength is the solidarity of workers, peasants and the intelligentsia, the solidarity of the nation,…

— Lech Walesa

Lying at the root of the social agreements of 1980 are the courage, sense of responsibility, and the solidarity of the working…

— Lech Walesa

We need to agree on common values for all religions as soon as possible, a kind of secular Ten Commandments on which…

— Lech Walesa

For now, capitalism is working to produce more money but does not see the people. This problem is getting worse across the…

— Lech Walesa