I leave you the best phrases of Benito Juárez, national hero and president of Mexico for three years (1864-1867), of Zapotec origin and from the state of Oaxaca. The aborigines of North America take pride in their "full-blooded" indigenous leader who served five terms as President of Mexico.
President Benito Juárez was born in Oaxaca, Mexico, in 1806. He studied law at the Institute of Sciences and Arts and was a strong defender of the indigenous peoples of Mexico. He was also Governor of Oaxaca during his distinguished political career.
As the federal representative of Mexico, Benito Juárez was key in the approval of the Mexican financing of the Mexican-American War of 1846, which ended in 1848 with the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo. This is the treaty that, among other things, established the current Mexico-United States border. You may also be interested in these phrases by Emiliano Zapata or these revolutionary ones.
The best quotes from Benito Juarez
- "Among individuals, as among nations, respect for the rights of others is peace."
- “It does not dishonor a man to make mistakes. What dishonors is perseverance in error ”.
- "Men are nothing, principles are everything."
- "As a son of the people, I could never forget that my only end must always be their greatest prosperity."
- "In politics, the straight line is the shortest."
- "It is impossible, morally speaking, that the reaction triumphs."
- "Against the country we will never be right."
- «Why is Mexico, my country, so strange that it is formed, half and half, of an inexhaustible source of tenderness and of a deep well of bestiality?»
- "The emission of ideas by the press must be as free, as the faculty of thinking is free in man."
- "There are circumstances in life in which it is necessary to risk everything if one wants to continue living physically and morally."
- «He who does not expect to win, is already defeated».
- "My duty is not to attend to those who only represent the desire of a small number of people, but to the national will."
- “There is energy to comply with the law; this will be enough for the nation to be saved and happy ”.
- "I do not recognize a purer source of power than public opinion."
- "As a son of the people I could never forget that my only goal must always be their greatest prosperity."
- «Free, and for me sacred, it is the right to think… Education is fundamental for social happiness; It is the principle on which freedom and the aggrandizement of peoples rest.
- "Civil governments should not have religion, because being their duty to protect the freedom that the governed have to practice the religion they like to adopt, they would not faithfully fulfill that duty if they were sectarian of any."
- "The government has the sacred duty to address the Nation, and make the voice of its most expensive rights and interests heard in it."
- "No compromise with flawed men and with those who have become accustomed to doing their will like Moors without a lord."
- “Democracy is the destiny of future humanity; freedom, his indestructible weapon; the possible perfection, the end where it is going "
- "Constancy and study make men great, and great men are the future of the Homeland."
- «The first ruler of a society should not have any flag other than the law; common happiness should be its north, and men equal in its presence, as they are before the law; he only has to distinguish between merit and virtue to reward them; to vice and crime to seek their punishment.
- "The principle of non-intervention is one of the first obligations of governments, it is the respect due to the freedom of peoples and the rights of nations."
- "I am persuaded that the respectability of the ruler comes from the law and from a correct procedure and not from costumes or military equipment of his own only for theater kings."
- «Let us trust that all Mexicans, instructed by the prolonged and painful experience of the war communities, will cooperate in the welfare and prosperity of the nation that can only be achieved with inviolable respect for the laws, and with obedience to the authorities elected by the people ”.
- "My duty is to enforce the law not only with measures of the spring of authority, but with the example to attack those who with an unfounded scruple were retracting from using the benefit that the law granted them."
- “The people who want to be free will be. Hidalgo taught that the power of kings is too weak when they rule against the will of the peoples.
- “Mexicans: We have achieved the greatest good we could wish for, seeing the independence of our Homeland consummated for the second time. Let us all cooperate in order to bequeath it to our children on the road to prosperity, always loving and sustaining our independence and our freedom ”.
- "Education is the first basis for the prosperity of a people, as well as the surest means of making abuses of power impossible."
- "The rulers of civil society should not attend, as such, any ecclesiastical ceremonial, although as men they can go to the temples to practice the acts of devotion that their religion dictates."
- "It would be bad to allow ourselves to be disarmed by a superior force, but it would be terrible to disarm our children by depriving them of a good right, that more brave, more patriotic and suffering than us, they will make it count and they will know how to claim it one day."
- "The principle of non-intervention is one of the first obligations of governments, it is the respect due to the freedom of peoples and the rights of nations."
- "Everything that Mexico does not do for itself to be free, it should not wait, nor should it wait, that other individuals or other nations do for it."
- «You cannot govern based on the impulses of a capricious will, but subject to the laws. You cannot improvise fortunes, nor indulge in leisure and dissipation, but devote yourself assiduously to work, preparing to live, in the honest mediocrity that provides the retribution that the law indicates to you ».