My youth passed at the time of the country's reconstruction from the ruins and ashes of the war in which my nation never bowed to the enemy paying the highest price in the struggle.

I believe that any violation of privacy is nothing good.

We hold our heads high, despite the price we have paid, because freedom is priceless.

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

Our national history has so often filled us with bitterness and the feeling of helplessness.

I realize that the strivings of the Polish people gave rise, and still do so, to the feelings of understanding and solidarity all over the world.

The hope of the nation which throughout the nineteenth century had not for a moment reconciled itself with the loss of independence, and fighting for its own freedom, fought at the same time for the freedom of other nations.