What you have to assess is whether you have the will to fight.

Through the intensive aspiration of the human soul arises in man the desire for independence.

India deliberately aggravated Sri Lanka's ethnic crisis. It destabilized Sri Lanka [by training and arming Tamil militants, including the Tigers] so that it could play a dominant role in bringing Sri Lanka within its sphere of influence.

I have gained self-confidence, courage and the support of my people.

India claimed to have intervened in Sri Lanka to secure Tamil interests. In actual fact, India came to secure its own interests.

People cannot give up their cause, their rights, for fear of defeat.

All human suffering springs from unbridled desire. Unless one extricates oneself from the clutch of greed, one will not free himself from the fetters of sorrow.