Our liberty will not be secured at the sword's point... We must secure it by making ourselves worthy of it. And when the people reaches that height, God will provide a weapon, the idols will be shattered, tyranny will crumble like a house of cards, and liberty will shine out like the first dawn.

Oh how beautiful to fall to give you flight, to die to give you life, to rest under your sky; and in your enchanted land forever sleep.

Cowardice rightly understood begins with selfishness and ends with shame.

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

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 tyranny of some is possible only through the cowardice of others.