Tomorrow at 7, I shall be shot; but I am innocent of the crime of rebellion. I am going to die with a tranquil conscience.

Dying people don't need medicine, the ones who remain do.

Necessity is the most powerful divinity the world knows – it is the result of physical forces set in operation by ethical forces.

One only dies once, and if one does not die well, a good opportunity is lost and will not present itself again.

The glory of saving a country is not for him who has contributed to its ruin.

I do not write for this generation. I am writing for other ages. If this could read me, they would burn my books, the work of my whole life. On the other hand, the generation which interprets these writings will be an educated generation; they will understand me and say: Not all were asleep in the nighttime of our grandparents.

I want to show to those who deprive people the right to love of country, that when we know how to sacrifice ourselves for our duties and convictions, death does not matter if one dies for those one loves – for his country and for others dear to him.