The continuation of authority has frequently proved the undoing of democratic governments. Repeated elections are essential to the system of popular governments, because there is nothing so dangerous as to suffer power to be vested for a long time in one citizen. The people become accustomed to obeying him, and he becomes accustomed to commanding, hence the origin of usurpation and tyranny.

Do not adopt the best system of government, but the one most likely to succeed.

In the unity of our nations rests the glorious future of our peoples.

The freedom of the New World is the hope of the Universe.

An ignorant people is the blind instrument of its own destruction.

When mankind was in its infancy, steeped in uncertainty, ignorance, and error, was it possible to foresee what system it would adopt for preservation.

It is harder to release a nation from servitude than to enslave a free nation.