Quotes by Lech Walesa

“Deep faith eliminates fear”

“He who puts out his hand to stop the wheel of history will have his fingers crushed.”

“I must tell you that the supply of words on the world market is plentiful, but the demand is falling.”

“The thing that lies at the foundation of positive change, the way I se it, is service to a fellow human being.”

“I knew right from the start that those who carried me on their shoulders will hurl stones at me one day. How was I to tell the workers now you will all be jobless? But we had no choice.”

“I got politics and economics moving and then others took over.”

“It was in us, in our hearts and minds that something started that changed the face of this earth.”

“What is the role of the worlds only super power? What is the role of the United Nations?,”

Deep faith eliminates fear.

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.

I use many different gadgets connected with computers; I use PCs, laptops and a Palm Pilot. I also use the Internet to visit websites, especially within Polish-language Internet. I usually go to political discussion groups and sites - of course, as I use my real name, people never believe that they are chatting with me!

You have riches and freedom here but I feel no sense of faith or direction. You have so many computers, why dont you use them in the search for love?

The sole and basic source of our strength is the solidarity of workers, peasants and the intelligentsia, the solidarity of the nation, the solidarity of people who seek to live in dignity, truth, and in harmony with their conscience.

Our firm conviction that ours is a just cause and that we must find a peaceful way to attain our goals gave us the strength and the awareness of the limits beyond which we must not go.

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

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

Authority must be respected and chosen wisely.

Im a man of faith. I only fear God, and my wife - sometimes.

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

We were hoping Obama would reclaim moral leadership for America. That failed.