Judgement comes from experience, and experience comes from bad judgement.

When tyranny becomes law, rebellion is a right.

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

The art of victory is learned in defeat.

Flee the country where a lone man holds all power: It is a nation of slaves.

To do something right it must be done twice. The first time instructs the second.

A people that loves freedom will in the end be free.

Do not compare your material forces with those of the enemy. Spirit cannot be compared with matter. You are human beings, they are beasts. You are free, they are slaves.

The United States appear to be destined by Providence to plague America with misery in the name of liberty.

It is harder to maintain the balance of freedom than it is to endure the weight of tyranny.

Colombians! My last wish is for the happiness of the patria. If my death contributes to the end of partisanship and the consolidation of the union, I shall be lowered in peace into my grave.

The laws of nature may be operative up to a certain limit, beyond which they turn against themselves to give birth to the absurd.

Long ago, among other lies they were taught that silence was bravery.

Adversity is only sand on your track to prevent you from skidding.

A wise soul once declared that the ultimate power of the writer is that he has the choice of whom he wants to be co-opted by.

The courageous man is the man who forces himself, in spite of his fear, to carry on.

All publicity works upon anxiety.

To a musician or songwriter, your canvas is silence.

You do not achieve anything without trouble, ever.

Each moment in history is a fleeting time, precious and unique. But some stand out as moments of beginning, in which courses are set that shape decades or centuries.

You're an entropic chaos factor