Most fortunate is the one who, while running through the pitfalls of war, politics, and public misfortunes, preserves their honor intact.
For the achievement of triumph, it has always been essential to pass through the path of sacrifices.
Hasten from the country where one person alone exercises all the powers: it is a country of slaves.
Our discords have their origin in the two most abundant sources of public calamity: ignorance and weakness.
The art of winning is learned in defeats.
It is more difficult to maintain the balance of freedom than to bear the weight of tyranny.
I scorned degrees and distinctions. I aspired to a more honorable fate: to shed my blood for the freedom of my country.
In the order of human vicissitudes, it is not always the majority of the physical mass that decides, but rather it is the superiority of moral force that tilts the political balance towards itself.
Let's form a homeland at all costs and everything else will be bearable.