We shall not yield to violence. We shall not be deprived of union freedoms. We shall never agree with sending people to prison for their convictions.

We need a global parliament, a global government and possibly a global ministry for security.

As a nation we have the right to decide our own affairs, to mould our own future. This does not pose any danger to anybody. Our nation is fully aware of the responsibility for its own fate in the complicated situation of the contemporary world.

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

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

[Without Pope John Paul II] there would be no end of Communism or at least much later, and the end would have been bloody.

I will talk and act, not on my knees, but with prudence.