This country is heaven, in the spiritual sense of the word. And I say, we prefer to die in heaven than survive in hell.

You Americans keep saying that Cuba is ninety miles from the United States. I say that the United States is ninety miles from Cuba and for us, that is worse.

I am Fidel Castro and we have come to liberate Cuba.

I am not a follower of Moscow, but its victim.

If religious feeling is put in opposition to social change, then it does become an opium, but if it is joined to the struggle for social change then it is a wonderful medicine.

The first thing dictators do is finish free press, to establish censorship. There is no doubt that a free press is the first enemy of dictatorship.

I neither will aspire to nor will I accept, the position of president of the council of state and commander in chief.