No one has a monopoly of the true God, nor is there a nation or religion that can claim, or at any rate prove, that it has been given the exclusive right to the Creator or sole knowledge of His Being.

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

No good water comes from a muddy spring. No sweet fruit comes from a bitter seed.

Genius has no country. It blossoms everywhere. Genius is like the light, the air. It is the heritage of all.

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

When there is in nature no fixed condition, how much less must there be in the life of a people, beings endowed with mobility and movement!

Cowardice rightly understood begins with selfishness and ends with shame.