There can be no tyrants where there are no slaves.

A God who chastises our lack of faith, our vices, the little esteem in which we hold dignity and the civic virtues. We tolerate vice, we make ourselves its accomplices, at times we applaud it, and it is just, very just that we suffer the consequences, that our children suffer them. It is the God of liberty ... who obliges us to love it, by making the yoke heavy for us - a God of mercy, of equity, who while He chastises us betters us and only grants prosperity to him who has merited it through his efforts. The school of suffering tempers, the arena of combat strengthens the soul.

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.

The glory of saving a country is not for him who has contributed to its ruin.

One only dies once, and if one does not die well, a good opportunity is lost and will not present itself again.

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!

How long have you been away from the country?" Laruja asked Ibarra. "Almost seven years." "Then you have probably forgotten all about it." "Quite the contrary. Even if my country does seem to have forgotten me, I have always thought about it.