Mountains culminate in peaks, and nations in men.

Let those who desire a secure homeland conquer it. Let those who do not conquer it live under the whip and in exile, watched over like wild animals, cast from one country to another, concealing the death of their souls with a beggar's smile from the scorn of free men.

In truth, men speak too much of danger.

To educate is to give man the keys to the world, which are independence and love, and to give him strength to journey on his own, light of step, a spontaneous and free being.

If I survive, I will spend my whole life at the oven door seeing that no one is denied bread and, so as to give a lesson of charity, especially those who did not bring flour.

America is a land of creators and rebels.

The vote is a trust more delicate than any other, for it involves not just the interests of the voter, but his life, honor and future as well.