I have always said to workers that they have to work hard, to produce more and better. In Chile, we need to achieve an average annual income of US$2,…

- Salvador Allende

First fulfill your academic obligations and then you will have the right to call yourself a leader of the left.

- Salvador Allende

I have experience and I am employing it in the service of a Chilean road for Chile's problems. We always take advantage of experience wherever it com…

- Salvador Allende

Every country has its own reality and its own leaders, and the leaders act in accordance with their reality.

- Salvador Allende

If the U.S. is going to defend itself, why shouldn't we do the same? We only want to be treated equally, nothing more.

- Salvador Allende

It's much harder to bring about socialism through legal means, because there are so many possibilities for opposition.

- Salvador Allende

People can progress only by working and producing more.

- Salvador Allende

I still believe in what I believed in for 20 years as a Socialist in Parliament, and being a Socialist is not the same as being a utopian.

- Salvador Allende

The Popular Unity government represented the first attempt anywhere to build a genuinely democratic transition to socialism - a socialism that, owing…

- Salvador Allende