To doubt God is to doubt one's own conscience, and in consequence it would be to doubt everything.

Law has no skin, reason has no nostrils.

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!

No one blames a pilot who takes refuge in port when the storm begins to blow. It is not cowardice to duck under a bullet; what is wrong is to defy it only to fall and never rise again.

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

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.

I can concede that the government has no knowledge of the people, but I believe the people know less of the government. There are useless officials, evil, if you like, but there are also good ones, and these are not able to accomplish anything because they encounter an inert mass, the population that takes little part in matters that concern them.