Samir Geagea

"Lebanon is our country, and in it we are staying (as a minority christians)."

"I would prefer to remain in prison for another 20 years than bargain my beliefs for freedom."

"You have come out of the big prison which you had been put in and you have taken me out with the same act from the small prison which I had been put in."

"I have spent 11 horrific years in solitary confinement in a 6-square-meter dungeon three floors underground without sunlight or fresh air. But I endured my hardships because I was merely living my convictions."

"They were long, dark, black years."