I have observed that the prosperity or misery of each people is in direct proportion to its liberties or its prejudices and, accordingly, to the sacrifices or the selfishness of its forefathers. -Juan Crisostomo Ibarra

Man is multiplied by the number of languages he possesses and speaks.

Travel is a caprice in childhood, a passion in youth, a necessity in manhood, and an elegy in old age.

The appetite is sharpened by the first bites.

I want to show to those who deprive people the right to love of country, that when we know how to sacrifice ourselves for our duties and convictions, death does not matter if one dies for those one loves – for his country and for others dear to him.

On this battlefield man has no better weapon than his intelligence, no other force but his heart.

What is death to me? I have sown the seeds others will reap.