I have reached the conclusion, a bit late perhaps, that speeches should be short.
FIDEL CASTROI am someone who’s been in politics for 43 years and I know what I’m doing and what I should do. Have no doubt that I know how to tell the truth and to do so elegantly.
More Fidel Castro Quotes
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A revolution is not a bed of roses. A revolution is a struggle between the future and the past.
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I neither will aspire to nor will I accept, the position of president of the council of state and commander in chief.
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I am not a dictator, and I do not think I will become one. I will not maintain power with a machine gun.
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We do not deny the possibility of peaceful political transition, but we are still awaiting the first case.
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Cuba has the cleanest and most-educated prostitutes in the world.
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Nothing in the world is irreversible, not even capitalism.
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Democracy’s my idea. I do not agree with communists, my acts prove. Free press in Cuba – free ideas, freedom religion belief.
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The first thing dictators do is finish free press, to establish censorship. There is no doubt that a free press is the first enemy of dictatorship.
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Were Kennedy not a millionaire, illiterate and ignorant, then he would obviously understand that you cannot revolt against the peasants.
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I am not a communist and neither is the revolutionary movement, but we do not have to say that we are anticommunists just to fawn on foreign powers.
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Men do not shape destiny. Destiny produces the man for the hour.
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The Cuban model doesn’t even work for us anymore.
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I believe that all of us ought to retire relatively young.
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We have a theoretical concept of the Revolution which is a dictatorship of the exploited against the exploiters.
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I am someone who’s been in politics for 43 years and I know what I’m doing and what I should do. Have no doubt that I know how to tell the truth and to do so elegantly.
FIDEL CASTRO