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Franjo Tuđman
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“You can take my freedom, even my life, but not my thought, not my truth, not my contribution to the history of the people to which I belong.”
Franjo Tuđman (1922–1999) first seen 1984 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Excerpts from his diary, written while in prison" (14 August 1984)
“In this difficult moment and at a historical turning point, I call on you, brothers and sisters, to fulfill your sacred duty in defending the homeland. Let us be united in the fight for the freedom of our Croatian country, our sea and sky over our only and eternal Croatia.”
Franjo Tuđman (1922–1999) first seen 1991 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Address to the Croatian people following the Serbian aggression against the Republic of Croatia" (5 October 1991)
“In carrying out our duties we need to always keep in mind the fact that in almost fourteen centuries of written history about Croats there has never been in any other institution of Croatian national life such outstanding declaration for survival, independence and self-determination as in the continued perpetuity and performance of the Croatian parliament.”
Franjo Tuđman (1922–1999) first seen 1990 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Speech at the inaugural assembly of the Croatian Parliament" (30 May 1990)
“It is not only others who are to blame for all our evils. Nor will in any circumstances only others shape our destiny. And for the present situation we all bear part of the responsibility in our own way. And especially for the future: our personal, our vocation and our people.”
Franjo Tuđman (1922–1999) first seen 1999 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Source (1999)
“The creation of our independent State was the outcome of the indestructible moral strength of the Croatian people, based on a firm national awareness that has burned for centuries as an eternal fire in our hearts. A nation may have existed from time immemorial, but if it lacks the moral strength and an awareness of its unique individual being, of its nationhood and statehood, it will disappear from the stage of world history. The Croatian people yearned for their State and rallied to achieve it.”
Franjo Tuđman (1922–1999) first seen 1992 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Address at the 47th session of the UN General Assembly" (22 September 1992)
“The fall of Soviet and other European Communist and totalitarian systems has reinforced hope and provided the prerequisites for the comprehensive democratization of the world while simultaneously raising the question of what kind of multilateralism is required and possible in the contemporary world.”
Franjo Tuđman (1922–1999) first seen 1993 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Address at the 48th session of the UN General Assembly" (28 September 1993)
“But today it is Croatian Knin and never again it will go back to what was before, when they spread cancer which has been destroying Croatian national being in the middle of Croatia and didn’t allow Croatian people to be truly alone on it’s [sic] own, that Croatia becomes capable of being independent and sovereign state...They were gone in a few days as if they had never been here, as I said. They did not even have time to collect their rotten money and dirty underwear.”
Franjo Tuđman (1922–1999) first seen 1995 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Speech in Knin" (26 August 1995)
“We live in an exciting and turbulent time. In a time that is filled with many openly present threats and insidious dangers. Many contemporaries were, and some still are, possessed by the nightmare of all kinds of hazards preying upon us along all our roads towards democracy and national sovereignty. Instead of tragic faintheartedness and passive feeling of impasse, I have personally always been more inclined to discovery and noticing those big chances that hid in that dramatic time and in the breaking point of a historical period. The history has already given us the answer, which says that we were in the right when we did not want to reconcile with the prospect of continuing as an object of foreign politics and when we consciously took the risk in becoming the recognized subject and creator of our own destiny.”
Franjo Tuđman (1922–1999) first seen 1990 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Speech at the inaugural assembly of the Croatian Parliament" (30 May 1990)
“Despite the inalienable right of the Croatian people -one of the oldest European peoples - to self-determination and to the renewal of their own State, despite the blatant barbaric aggression aimed at territorial conquest, the genocidal expulsion of the population and the destruction of the most precious cultural heritage of the Croatian people, such as Vukovar and Dubrovnik, the Croats would never have won the right to self-determination, to their State, to freedom and independence, had they not been prepared to make human and material sacrifices, had they not shown a firm nation-building will, with which they have resolutely asserted themselves as a member of the international community, while manifesting their readiness to be a constructive force in the development of the new international order to replace the unviable and failed old system.”
Franjo Tuđman (1922–1999) first seen 1994 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Address at the 49th session of the UN General Assembly" (28 September 1994)