"The final hour of colonialism has struck, and millions of inhabitants of Africa, Asia and Latin America rise to meet a new life and demand their undisputed right to self-determination and to decide th…"

"The risk of a wrong decision is preferable to the terror of indecision."

"If the rockets had remained, we would have used them all and directed them against the very heart of the United States, including New York."

"Given the prevailing lack of discipline, it would have been impossible to use Congolese machine-gunners to defend the base from air attack: they did not know how to handle their weapons and did not wa…"

"I have a wish. It is a wish that I have always had. It is to see the day when the last man who thinks he is a capitalist is hanged with the guts of the last priest."