"Authority must be respected and chosen wisely."
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"I only fear God, and my wife - sometimes."
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"Without a single shot we've managed to liberate the world of communism but now there is a need for a global solidarity."
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"It is not difficult to censor foreign news. What is difficult today is to censor one's own thoughts, To sit by and see the blind man On the sightless horse, riding into the bottomless abyss."
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"I think if I got a bicycle from my father, I should give a car to my son."
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"One could always do more, faster and cleverer, but democracy has its own rhythm."
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"[Without Pope John Paul II] there would be no end of Communism or at least much later, and the end would have been bloody."
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"Democracy is made up of three elements. One is whether the laws support pluralistic principles. The second is whether the people take advantage of these laws. The third element is whether the peoples' wallets are thick enough to benefit from this democracy."
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"Communism prevents organizations from developing by stopping the flow of information. The system is based on police and listening devices and triggers the worst characteristics in humans."
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"For now, capitalism is working to produce more money but does not see the people. This problem is getting worse across the world."
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"When he saw injustice, he wanted to do away with it. He saw communism, and he wanted to put an end to it."
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"You should go to the polls, organize yourself. But once lawmakers are chosen, they must be respected."
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""It all came from there," Lech Walesa said, pointing to a TV when a reporter asked him why communism fell."
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"There should be a left leg and a right leg. And I'll be in between"
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"If there were fish in the lake, fishing would make no sense."
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"If once again Germany destabilizes Europe, then Germany will be not be divided again, but wiped off the map. East and West have the necessary technology in order to enforce this verdict. If Germany begins again, there is no other solution."
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"Dictators and oppressors should continue to fear me because I will be here for a long time."
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"Capitalism is in crisis."
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"This is the moment of your defeat; you have just put in the last nails in the coffin of communism."
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"I believed it would succeed. It was Polish Solidarity and its victory that put an end to the old era when what mattered were borders and rival blocs."
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