Europe believes American countries to be weak, we would not go there to provoke them, but if they come to seek us at this continent which is our home, to try to enslave us, we will show their invincible armies that a small country is big, that a weak country is strong, that a young nation is powerful when its courage stems from the love for liberty and justice.

Adversity discourages none but contemptible peoples.

Mexicans: let us now pledge all our efforts to obtain and consolidate the benefits of peace. Under its auspices, the protection of the laws and of the authorit…

Democracy is the destiny of humanity; freedom its indestructible arm.

If there exists one unique great imperial power which is always convinced that its most brutal interests coincide with the Good; if it is true that every year …

I really do inhabit a system in which words are capable of shaking the entire structure of government, where words can prove mightier than ten military divisio…

You only have power over people so long as you don't take everything away from them. But when you've robbed a man of everything he's no longer in your power - …