The defense of our rights and our dignity, as well as efforts never to let ourselves to be overcome by the feeling of hatred - this is the road we have chosen.

President Lech Kaczynski is not at all active in Poland and his image abroad leaves a lot to be desired.

I belong to a nation which over the past centuries has experienced many hardships and reverses. The world reacted with silence or with mere sympathy when Polish frontiers were crossed by invading armies and the sovereign state had to succumb to brutal force.

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

There is something of the warrior in me.

Freedom must be gained step by step, slowly. Freedom is a food which must be carefully administered when people are too hungry for it.

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.