o prezydentach-idealistach, wyniesionych do władzy przez przewroty, takich jak Gamal Abdel Naser.
Źródło: Tunezja. Przewodnik ilustrowany, Berlitz, Warszawa 2008, ISBN 9788374764346, s. 57.
Habib Burgiba słynne cytaty
„Ale was ten Stalin urządził…”
do Wojciecha Jaruzelskiego, kiedy ten odbywał oficjalną wizytę w Tunezji.
Źródło: Monika Jaruzelska, Towarzyszka panienka, Czerwone i Czarne, Warszawa 2013, ISBN 9788377001240, s. 178.
zagrzewając do walki oddanych sprawie zwolenników w Gabes w Egipcie w 1949.
Źródło: Pierre Accoce, Pierre Rentchnick, Chorzy, którzy nami rządzą, tłum. Marta Kubiak, Wydawnictwo Test, Lublin 1992, s. 22.
Habib Burgiba: Cytaty po angielsku
“humiliating backward condition of our country.”
[TUNISIA: Breaking the Fast, TIME, Monday, Feb. 22, 1960, http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,939596,00.html, September 6, 2011]
[TUNISIA: Neighbor's Duty, TIME, Monday, Dec. 02, 1957, 2, http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,825330-2,00.html, September 6, 2011]
“I have promised the Tunisian people that the French army will go, If I fail, I will be swept away.”
[TUNISIA: The Accused, TIME, Monday, Feb. 24, 1958, 2, http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,862990-2,00.html, September 6, 2011]
[ARAB LEAGUE: Defying Nasser, TIME, Monday, Oct. 27, 1958, http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,937614,00.html, September 6, 2011]
[Tunisia: Shudder at the Knees, TIME, Friday, Aug. 26, 1966, http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,842668,00.html, September 6, 2011]
“When a house is on fire, the neighbors' duty is to put it out”
[TUNISIA: Neighbor's Duty, TIME, Monday, Dec. 02, 1957, 1, http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,825330-1,00.html, September 6, 2011]
[TUNISIA: Breaking the Fast, TIME, Monday, Feb. 22, 1960, http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,939596,00.html, September 6, 2011]
[TUNISIA: No Time for Democracy, TIME, Monday, Sept. 29, 1958, 1, http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,821168,00.html, September 6, 2011]
“Basically and profoundly, we are with the West.”
[TUNISIA: Neighbor's Duty, TIME, Monday, Dec. 02, 1957, 2, http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,825330-2,00.html, September 6, 2011]
“While I am alive, not a hair on Jewish heads will be touched.”
[Religion: Exodus, TIME, Friday, July 06, 1962, 1, http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,940033,00.html, September 6, 2011]
[TUNISIA: No Time for Democracy, TIME, Monday, Sept. 29, 1958, 2, http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,821168-2,00.html, September 6, 2011]
“I hate colonialism, not the French.”
[TUNISIA: Neighbor's Duty, TIME, Monday, Dec. 02, 1957, 1, http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,825330-1,00.html, September 6, 2011]
[TUNISIA: The Accused, TIME, Monday, Feb. 24, 1958, 2, http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,862990-2,00.html, September 6, 2011]
“Stagnation, weakness and decadence ... beautiful custom ... pretext that paralyzes our activity.”
Bourguiba on Ramadan's effect on Tunisia: