Franjo Tudjman Quotes

All sorts of other lies are being spread today, I do not know what else they will invent. I've heard that I'm of Jewish descent, but I found, I knew of my ancestors in Zagorje from around 350 years ago, and I said, maybe it would be good to have some of that, I guess I would be richer, I might not have become a Communist.
Franjo Tudjman

Good, Today, Said

I haven't mentioned another argument, The Hague tribunal. It is clear our generals and all of you who are sitting here now with me could end up there, too.
Franjo Tudjman

End, Another, Here

I joined the anti-Fascist struggle with my best friend, who was a Jew.
Franjo Tudjman

Best, Struggle, Friend

If Yugoslavia is to exist, it can exist only as an alliance, a confederation of independent states.
Franjo Tudjman

Exist, Alliance, Yugoslavia

Let's make a deal with the Serbs. Neither history nor emotion in the Balkans will permit multinationalism. We have to give up on the illusion of the last eight years... Dayton isn't working. Nobody - except diplomats and petty officials - believes in a sovereign Bosnia and the Dayton accords.
Franjo Tudjman

History, Give, Working

Thank god my wife is neither a Serb nor a Jew.
Franjo Tudjman

The estimated loss of up to six million dead is founded too much on both emotional, biased testimonies and on exaggerated data in the postwar reckonings of war crimes and on the squaring of accounts with the defeated.
Franjo Tudjman

War, Emotional, Dead

The Muslims wanted to reign over the whole of Mostar, then gain ground to the sea and finally create an Islamic state. That is what our Croatians defend themselves against.
Franjo Tudjman

Wanted, Whole, Against

The West wanted to avoid an Islamic state in Europe.
Franjo Tudjman

Wanted, State, Europe

Then, as if that's not enough, then they declare that my wife is Jewish or Serbian. Luckily for me, she never was either, although many wives are. And so on and so forth spreading lies.
Franjo Tudjman

Wife, Enough, She

Whatever happened after the liberation of Krajina, this was in no way a violation of human rights by Croatian authorities.
Franjo Tudjman

Human, After, Whatever

You should give no indication that we wish the three-way division of Bosnia.
Franjo Tudjman

Give, Wish, Bosnia

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Biography

Nationality: Croatian

Type: Statesman

Born: May 14, 1922

Died: December 10, 1999

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