In my idea General Washington is the greatest man; for I look upon him as the most virtuous.

When the government violates the people's rights, insurrection is, for the people and for each portion of the people, the most sacred of the rights and the most indispensible of duties.

Humanity has won its battle. Liberty now has a country.

I read, I study, I examine, I listen, I reflect, and out of all of this I try to form an idea into which I put as much common sense as I can.

Insurrection is the most sacred of rights and the most indispensable of duties.

If the liberties of the American people are ever destroyed, they will fall by the hands of the clergy.

All that you are, all that I owe to you, justifies my love.

True republicanism is the sovereignty of the people. There are natural and imprescriptible rights which an entire nation has no right to violate.

Humanity has gained its suit; Liberty will nevermore be without an asylum.

In the American colonies, the main problem of liberty has been solved, demonstrated and practiced in such a manner as not to leave much to be said by European institutions.

If you were lost for America, there is nobody who could keep the army and the revolution [going] for six months.

Chaos needs no allies, for it dwells like a poison in every one of us.

View every obstacle as an opportunity to grow.

Most men are individuals no longer so far as their business, its activities, or its moralities are concerned. They are not units but fractions.

Want of will causes paralysis of every faculty. In spiritual things man is utterly unable because resolvedly unwilling.

Develop the wise art of being radically truthful and remaining considerate, thoughtful, and safe.

The best way to find out if a man has done something is to advise him to do it. He will not be able to resist boasting that he has done it without being advised.

Being free brings a lightness, a carefree surrender to all that is happening around you, and, above all, an acceptance of reality.

Telenovelas have been part of my world since childhood, I always felt like I had to be something that I wasn't.

Works indeed are good, and God strictly requires them of us, but they do not make us holy.

Well, these sad and hopeless obstacles are welcome in one sense, for they enable us to look with indifference upon the cruel satires that Fate loves to indulge in.