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.

This is the moment of your defeat; you have just put in the last nails in the coffin of communism.

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

I believe that any violation of privacy is nothing good.

Let the veil of silence fall presently over what happened afterwards. Silence, too, can speak out.

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.

I have always been and will be an enemy of communism, but I love all people.