There can be no tyrants where there are no slaves.

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.

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

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

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.

Necessity is the most powerful divinity the world knows – it is the result of physical forces set in operation by ethical forces.