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I have reached the conclusion, a bit late perhaps, that speeches should be short.

Fidel Castro

I am not a dictator, and I do not think I will become one. I will not maintain power with a machine gun.
FIDEL CASTRO

Myself Power Thinking Weapon Willing
I am Fidel Castro and we have come to liberate Cuba.
FIDEL CASTRO

Freedom Liberty Myself
If we had paused to tell the people that we were Marxist-Leninists while we were on Pico Turquino and not yet strong, it is possible that we would never have been able to descend to the plains.
FIDEL CASTRO

People Plain Possible Strong
Ideas do not need weapons.
FIDEL CASTRO

Ideas One Liner Weapon
Everyone is a poet at 16, but how many are poets at 50? Generally, people seem to get more conservative as they age, but in my case, I seem to have gotten more radical.
FIDEL CASTRO

Age Mindset Myself People Poet
If people call me Christian, not from the standpoint of religion but from the standpoint of social vision, I declare that I am a Christian.
FIDEL CASTRO

Myself People Religion Social Vision
Capitalism is using its money; we socialists throw it away.
FIDEL CASTRO

Capitalism Money Social Throw
If Mr. Kennedy does not like Socialism, we do not like imperialism. We do not like Capitalism.
FIDEL CASTRO

Capitalism Imperialism Socialism
The truth is that after several decades of neoliberalism, the rich are becoming increasingly richer while the poor are both more numerous and increasingly poorer.
FIDEL CASTRO

Poor Rich Truth
I never perceived a contradiction in the political revolutionary field between the ideas I maintained and the idea of that symbol, that extraordinary figure who had been so familiar to me since I began to reason.
FIDEL CASTRO

Familiar Ideas Myself Politics Reason Revolution Symbol
I would not vote for the mayor. It’s not just because he didn’t invite me to dinner, but because on my way into town from the airport there were such enormous potholes.
FIDEL CASTRO

Dinner Invitation Myself Vote Way
Sovereignty is not negotiated in exchange for anything; to maintain the achievements of the revolution does not depend on a foreign power.
FIDEL CASTRO

exchange Maintain Negotiate Power
A revolution is not a bed of roses. A revolution is a struggle between the future and the past.
FIDEL CASTRO

Bed Past Revolution Rose Struggle
Repetition is a revolutionary virtue.
FIDEL CASTRO

Repeat Revolution Virtue
The duty of every revolutionary is to make revolution.
FIDEL CASTRO

Responsibility Revolution
Men do not shape destiny. Destiny produces the man for the hour.
FIDEL CASTRO

Destiny Man Production Time

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