Slumber not in the tents of your fathers. The world is advancing.

Men of great genius and large heart sow the seeds of a new degree of progress in the world, but they bear fruit only after many years.

Without country you have neither name, token, voice, nor rights, no admission as brothers into the fellowship of the Peoples. You are the bastards of Humanity. Soldiers without a banner, Israelites among the nations, you will find neither faith nor protection; none will be sureties for you. Do not beguile yourselves with the hope of emancipation from unjust social conditions if you do not first conquer a Country for yourselves.

Insurrection by means of guerrilla bands is the true method of warfare for all nations desirous of emancipating themselves from a foreign yoke. It is invincible, indestructible.

Love and respect woman. Look to her not only for comfort, but for strength and inspiration and the doubling of your intellectual and moral powers. Blot out from your mind any idea of superiority; you have none.

Nations, like individuals, live and die; but civilization cannot die.

The obscurest sayings of the truly great are often those which contain the germ of the profoundest and most useful truths.