I go where there are no slaves, hangmen or oppressors; where faith does not kill; where the one who reigns is God.

For myself I think that one wrong does not right the other, and forgiveness cannot be won with useless tears or alms to the Church.

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

I can concede that the government has no knowledge of the people, but I believe the people know less of the government. There are useless officials, evil, if you like, but there are also good ones, and these are not able to accomplish anything because they encounter an inert mass, the population that takes little part in matters that concern them.

The youth is the hope of our future.

Who does not love his own tongue is far worse than a brute or stinking fish.

While a people preserves its language; it preserves the marks of liberty.