Jose Marti

“A child, from the time he can think, should think about all he sees, should suffer for all who cannot live with honesty, should work so that all men can be honest, and should be honest himself.”

“The struggles waged by nations are weak only when they lack support in the hearts of their women.”

“Man is a living duty, a depository of powers that he must not leave in a brute state. Man is a wing.”

“An insatiable appetite for glory leads to sacrifice and death, but innate instinct leads to self-preservation and life.”

“But love, like the sun that it is, sets afire and melts everything. what greed and privilege to build up over whole centuries the indignation of a pious spirit, with its natural following of oppressed souls, will cast down with a single shove.”

“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.”

“There is happiness in duty, although it may not seem so.”

“Man loves liberty, even if he does not know that he loves it. He is driven by it and flees from where it does not exist.”

“He who could have been a torch and stoops to being a pair of jaws is a deserter.”

“To use for our exclusive benefit what is not ours is theft.”

“A genuine man goes to the roots. To be a radical is no more than that: to go to the roots.”

“Culture, which makes talent shine, is not completely ours either, nor can we place it solely at our disposal. Rather, it belongs mainly to our country, which gave it to us, and to humanity, from which we receive it as a birthright.”

“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.”

“Other famous men, those of much talk and few deeds, soon evaporate. Action is the dignity of greatness.”

“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.”

“Charm is a product of the unexpected.”

“Love is the bond between men, the way to teach and the center of the world.”

“It is necessary to make virtue fashionable.”

“It is the duty of man to raise up man.”

“One just principle from the depths of a cave is more powerful than an army.”