To sin by silence when they should protest makes cowards of men.

Liberty is not a means to a higher political end. It is itself the highest political end.

The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched - they must be felt with the heart.

The tradition of all the dead generations weighs like a nightmare on the brain of the living.

In Italy for thirty years under the Borgias they had warfare, terror, murder and bloodshed but they produced Michelangelo, Leonardo da Vinci and the Renaissance. In Switzerland, they had brotherly love; they had five hundred years of democracy and peace and what did that produce? The cuckoo clock.

We cannot be sure that we have something to live for unless we are ready to die for it.

I love freedom for what I can do with it, I hate freedom for what I have done with it.

I love the deep quiet in which I live and grow against the world and harvest what they cannot take from me by fire or sword.

When you have reached a point at which you cannot see more, You must remember that there may be a point beyond this at which you can see everything.

The lazy man always does twice the work.<br> (El bago siempre pasa double trabajo)