Pardon is the virtue of victory.

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.

A Country is not a mere territory; the particular territory is only its foundation. The Country is the idea which rises upon that foundation; it is the sentiment of love, the sense of fellowship which binds together all the sons of that territory.

Pardon is the virtue of victory.

Preach in the name of God. The learned will smile; ask the learned what they have done for their country. The priests will excommunicate you . . .

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.

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