Do something useful and you will have everything you want. Doors are shut for those who are dull and lazy; life is secure for those who obey the law of work.

It is my duty to prevent, through the independence of Cuba, the U.S.A. from spreading over the West Indies and falling with addedweight upon other lands of Our America. All I have done up to now and shall do hereafter is to that end.... I know the Monster, because I have lived in its lair--and my weapon is only the slingshot of David.

Man loves liberty, even if he does not know that he loves it. He is driven by it and flees from where it does not exist.

Fortunately, there is a sane equilibrium in the character of nations, as there is in that of men.

Man needs to go outside himself in order to find repose and reveal himself.

The force of passion is balanced by the force of interest.

The dagger plunged in the name of freedom is plunged into the breast of freedom.