Cowardice rightly understood begins with selfishness and ends with shame.

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

To live is to be among men, and to be among men is to struggle, a struggle not only with them but with oneself; with their passions, but also with one's own.

The people do not complain because they have no voice; do not move because they are lethargic, and you say that they do not suffer because you have not seen their hearts bleed.

It is enough for the evil people to succeed, for the good people to do nothing.

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

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