Poland Quotes

• Poland is an ally of the United States of America. It was our duty to show that we are a reliable, loyal, and predictable ally. America needed our help, and we had to give it.

  Adam Michnik

  America, Giving, Loyal

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• I belong to the generation of workers who, born in the villages and hamlets of rural Poland, had the opportunity to acquire education and find employment in industry, becoming in the course conscious of their rights and importance in society.

  Lech Walesa

  Education, Opportunity, Rights

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• My most ardent desire is that my country will recapture its historic opportunity for a peaceful evolution and that Poland will prove to the world that even the most complex situations can be solved by a dialogue and not by force.

  Lech Walesa

  Country, Opportunity, Peaceful

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• I interviewed survivors, I went to Poland, saw the cities and spent time with the people and spoke to the Jews who had come back to Poland after the war and talked about why they had come back.

  Steven Spielberg

  War, Cities, People

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• No invader has ever conquered the heart of Poland, that spirit which is the inheritance of sons and daughters, the private passion of families and the ancient, unbreakable tie to all those who came before.

  James A. Michener

  Daughter, Passion, Heart

  "Poland". Book by James A. Michener, 1983.

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• It has been said that Poland is dead, exhausted, enslaved, but here is the proof of her life and triumph.

  Henryk Sienkiewicz

  Triumph, Exhausted, Proof

  Henryk Sienkiewicz (2013). “Henryk Sienkiewicz: Three Stories”, p.7, Wildside Press LLC

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• First, Poland has been again overrun by two of the great powers which held her in bondage for 150 years but were unable to quench the spirit of the Polish nation. The heroic defense of Warsaw shows that the soul of Poland is indestructible, and that she will rise again like a rock which may for a spell be submerged by a tidal wave but which remains a rock.

  Winston Churchill

  Two, Rocks, Years

  Winston Churchill, Martin Gilbert (1993). “The Churchill War Papers: At the Admiralty, September 1939-May 1940”, William Heinemann

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• I just can't listen to any more Wagner, you know...I'm starting to get the urge to conquer Poland.

  Woody Allen

  Witty, Humorous, Conquer

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• Poland should be strong and prosperous and independent and play its proper role as a great nation in the heart of Europe.

  George H. W. Bush

  Strong, Independent, Heart

  "The Presidents", www.pbs.org. May 5, 2008.

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• The Jews of Poland are the smeariest of all races.

  Karl Marx

  Race, Jew

  Karl Marx (2015). “A World Without Jews”, p.5, Open Road Media

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• If people from Poland are called Poles, why aren't people from Holland called Holes?

  Steven Wright

  Funny, Humor, People

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• I can tell you a graphic difference. In Prague, for example, big red posters were put up on which could be read that seven Czechs had been shot today. I said to myself: If I put up a poster for every seven Poles shot, the forests of Poland would not be sufficient to manufacture the paper for such posters.

  Hans Frank

  Differences, Prague, Example

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• Poles offer a mobility like that of the wind that blows over the immense plains and marches of Poland. Show a Pole a precipice, and he will leap headlong over it.

  Honore de Balzac

  Blow, Wind, Mobility

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• The first printed mention of bagels... is to be found in the Community Regulations of Kracow, Poland, for the year 1610 which stated that bagels would be given as a gift to any woman in childbirth.

  Leo Rosten

  Food, Years, Community

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• The Holocaust committed by the Nazis turned this country, where most of the European Jews used to live and where their culture used to flourish, into a massive grave. This is why initiatives to revive Jewish culture in Poland is so important.

  Marek Belka

  Country, Holocaust, Important

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• Yet we slink about like whipped curs:;... our self-abasement principally takes the form of subservience to the United States:;... we are under no necessity to participate in the American nightmare of a Soviet monster barely held at bay in all quarters of the globe by an inconceivable nuclear armament and by political intervention everywhere from Poland to Cambodia. It is the Americans who need us in order to act out their crazy scenario... We simply do not need to go chasing up and down after the vagaries of the next ignoramus to become President of the United States.

  Enoch Powell

  Crazy, Self, Order

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• The tribunal here and your American newspapers talk so much about our sharp Nazi methods, but do you realize that within the past year, since the defeat of Germany, 1 million Germans have been evicted from what was originally German territory and which has now been given to Poland? No League of Nations or other body intervened.

  Alfred Rosenberg

  Past, Years, League

  "The Nuremberg Interviews". Book by Leon Goldensohn, 2004.

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• I'm okay with roaming around the world in my bunk for days on end. Maybe every third day I'll get a shower or stumble out at dawn and realize I'm in a field in Poland. I like that kind of life.

  Patti Smith

  Roaming Around, Dawn, World

  Source: www.macleans.ca

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• Germany has concluded a Non-Aggression Pact with Poland. We shall adhere to it unconditionally. We recognize Poland as the home of a great and nationally conscious people.

  Adolf Hitler

  War, Home, People

  Adolf Hitler (1944). “Hitler's Words”

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• Whoever comes to me, will be free and equal, because I am freedom.

  Adam Mickiewicz

  Equal

  "The Books of the Polish Nation". Book by Adam Mickiewicz, 1833.

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• This homage has been rendered not to me - for the Polish soil is fertile and does not lack better writers than me - but to the Polish achievement, the Polish genius.

  Henryk Sienkiewicz

  Achievement, Doe, Genius

  Henryk Sienkiewicz (2013). “Henryk Sienkiewicz: Three Stories”, p.7, Wildside Press LLC

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• I feel Polish. More specifically, I feel like I'm from the tiny village in the Northeast of Poland where I have a house and where I love to spend time. But I don't work there. I cut wood.

  Krzysztof Kieslowski

  Cutting, House, Village

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• If I had means, I would like to spend half a year in Palestine in order to contemplate what has been, and half a year in Poland in order to preserve what remains.

  Janusz Korczak

  Mean, Order, Years

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• One Cow in Palestine is worth more than all the Jews in Poland

  Yitzhak Gruenbaum

  Cows, Palestine, Jew

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• The official ideology [of Poland] is Marxism-Leninism, which no one openly admits to believing. For Marx expressed the German view, and Lenin the Russian one, and the meeting of these particular minds has always spelled Polish ruin.

  Norman Davies

  Believe, Views, Mind

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