Make no mistake: peaceful madmen are ahead of the future.

Bad luck doesn't have any chinks in it. I was born a son of a bitch and I'm going to die a son of a bitch. - Captain Roque Carnicero

It is easier to start a war than to end it.

Meciéndose en la silla, el juez lo persiguió con una mirada sombría mientras limpiaba el pasamanos. El secretario lo contempló como si tuviera el propósito de no olvidarlo jamás bajo aquella luz, en ese instante y en esa posición, y dijo señalándolo con el índice:—Así como está usted ahora, ni más ni menos, estaba el juez Vitela cuando lo perforaron a tiros.

Iturbide exclaimed: "Don't frighten me, General!""Don't be frightened," said the General in a calm voice. "Go to Mexico, even if they kill you or even if you die. And go now while you're still young, because one day it will be too late, and then you won't feel at home here or there. You'll feel like a stranger everywhere, and that's worse than being dead." He looked him straight in the eye, placed his open hand on his own chest, and concluded:"Just look at me.

He always considered death an unavoidable professional hazard.

Не се тревожи - усмихваше се той.- Да умреш е много по-трудно, отколкото човек си мисли.В неговия случай бе вярно. Увереността, че денят му е насрочен, го облече в загадъчна неприкосновеност, в безсмъртие до определен срок, което го направи неуязвим за опасностите на войната и му позволи накрая да извоюва едно поражение, много по-трудно, много по-кърваво и скъпо, отколкото победата.

There are some corrupt Christians who do their business with female donkeys.

What worries me is that out of so much hatred for the military, out of fighting them so much and thinking about them so much, you've ended up as bad as they are. And no ideal in life is worth that much baseness.