Top 29 Quotes by Ahmed Ben Bella

When I was engaged in the struggle for my country, I was very young. My horizons were open.

The French colonisation of Algeria lasted a long time: 132 years.

I am the son of poor peasants who came at a very young age to live in Algeria. I only recently saw the place where they were born, near the city of Marrakech.

Peace does not include a vendetta; there will be neither winners nor losers.

It is obvious that taking the country from a state of war to being a lawful state won't be easy.

Everywhere that the struggle for national freedom has triumphed, once the authorities agreed, there were military coups d'etat that overthrew their leaders. That is the result time and time again.

When someone came to ask us for help, it was sacred. We did not even think twice. We helped them, even if we had only meagre means; we offered them arms, a little bit of money, and in occasion, men.

I accommodated practically all of the liberation movements, including those of Latin America.

Che came in 1963, shortly after I had come to power.

Algeria is not breaking up.