Fidel Castro — "I think that I will die with the boots on."

"I am not looking for anything I can be given. I am looking for something I can achieve."

"The world today is a battlefield where the forces of progress and reaction are constantly clashing."

"I don't think anyone has been slandered more than I have."

"The revolution is not a dinner party, nor an essay, nor a painting, nor a piece of embroidery; it cannot be so refined, so leisurely and gentle, so temperate, kind, courteous, restrained and magnanimo…"

"I don't think there is a single country in the world that has been subjected to such an aggression, such a blockade, such a systematic campaign of destabilization, as Cuba."