 A genuine man goes to the roots. To be a radical is no more than that: to go to the roots. |
| The force of passion is balanced by the force of interest. |
| To use for our exclusive benefit what is not ours is theft. |
| The struggles waged by nations are weak only when they lack support in the hearts of their women. |
| Only those who spread treachery, fire, and death out of hatred for the prosperity of others are undeserving of pity. |
| Peoples are made of hate and of love, and more of hate than love. |
| Happiness exists on earth, and it is won through prudent exercise of reason, knowledge of the harmony of the universe, and constant practice of generosity. |
| Men are like the stars; some generate their own light while others reflect the brilliance they receive. |
| Other famous men, those of much talk and few deeds, soon evaporate. Action is the dignity of greatness. |
| Every human being has within him an ideal man, just as every piece of marble contains in a rough state a statue as beautiful as the one that Praxiteles the Greek made of the god Apollo. |
| Freedoms, like privileges, prevail or are imperiled together You cannot harm or strive to achieve one without harming or furthering all. |
| He who receives money in trust to administer for the benefit of its owner, and uses it either for his own interest or against the wishes of its rightful owner, is a thief. |
| The vote is a trust more delicate than any other, for it involves not just the interests of the voter, but his life, honor and future as well. |
| A child who does not think about what happens around him and is content with living without wondering whether he lives honestly is like a man who lives from a scoundrel's work and is on the road to being a scoundrel. |
| Like bones to the human body, the axle to the wheel, the wing to the bird, and the air to the wing, so is liberty the essence of life. Whatever is done without it is imperfect. |
| One is guilty of all abjection that one does not help to relieve. |
| In truth, men speak too much of danger. |
| If I survive, I will spend my whole life at the oven door seeing that no one is denied bread and, so as to give a lesson of charity, especially those who did not bring flour. |
| Like stones rolling down hills, fair ideas reach their objectives despite all obstacles and barriers. It may be possible to speed or hinder them, but impossible to stop them. |
| Talent is a gift that brings with it an obligation to serve the world, and not ourselves, for it is not of our making. |
