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.

Man works for an object. Remove that object and you reduce him into inaction.

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

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

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

God has made man a cosmopolite. He created seas for ships to glide on, the wind to push them, and the stars to guide them even in darkest night.

Why independence? If the slaves of today will be the tyrants of tomorrow.