Alfred Kordelin Quotes in Mommilan veriteot 1917 (1973)

Alfred Kordelin: [the revolutionaries have arrested Kordelin] I've always been afraid. When I was a boy I was forecast that one day I would be very rich... but I would die in a gutter.

Theodor Mansner: Someone should have a speech to our birthday boy. Who shall do it?

Alfred Kordelin: I will.

Alfred Kordelin: In a good way you get everything, in a bad you get nothing.

Theodor Mansner: That's just what I've always said, haven't I.

Alfred Kordelin: [to the revolutionaries] I have been poor. I have been so poor that you can't even imagine how poor I have bee. But I have never taken anything from the people. What I have taken, I haven taken from the rich.

Alfred Kordelin: You don't make money by tattling.

Alfred Kordelin: On my birthday no-one is allowed to speak politics.