The phrases of the Independence of Mexico (1810-1821) serve to understand a little better how this convulsive and important stage in the recent history of this great country developed and turned out.
There are many independence figures, such as politicians, soldiers or activists, who had an important impact on this conflict. One of his weapons was his speeches, gathering from these great quotes that have gone down in history.
You may also be interested in these revolutionary phrases or these by Emiliano Zapata.
Top 40 quotes of the Independence of Mexico
- Long live our national independence! Long live the heroes who gave us homeland and freedom! Long live Hidalgo! Long live Morelos! Long live Allende! Long live Doña Josefa Ortiz de Domínguez! Long live Mexico! - Independence shout.
- Without democracy, freedom is a chimera. -Octavio Paz.
- Revolutionary freedom is perverted by personal power. -Carlos Fuentes.
- That everyone who complains with justice have a court that listens to him, protects him and defends him against the arbitrary. -Jose maria morelos and pavon.
- Men are nothing, principles are everything. -Benito Juarez.
- Democracy is the destiny of humanity, freedom, its indestructible arm. -Benito Juarez.
- Between individuals, as between nations; Respect for the rights of others is peace. -Benito Juarez.
- Long live our most holy mother of Guadalupe. Death to bad government. Long live religion and die gachupines. –First Cry of Pain.
- When the people jump over their barriers, almost no effort is powerful enough to stop it. -Guadalupe Victoria.
- Women are the great forgotten in history. Books are the best way to pay tribute to them. –Elena Poniatowska.
- Ignorance and obscurantism in all times have produced nothing but herds of slaves for tyranny. -Emiliano Zapata.
- My country is first. -Vicente Guerrero.
- I want to die being a slave of principles, not of men. -Emiliano Zapata.
- If we can't do anything to change the past, let's do something in the present to change the future. –Victoriano Huerta.
- The largest and most powerful nation is weak if it lacks justice. –Manuel José Othón.
- Sovereignty comes immediately from the people. -Jose maria morelos and pavon.
- To be creative, you have to shut up the judge on your back. –Guadalupe Nettel.
-It is fair that we all aspire to be more, but also that we all assert our rights. -Francisco Villa.
- To serve the country, there is never a surplus of the one who arrives, nor is it necessary for the one who leaves. –Venustiano Carranza.
- Those who ask logic to life forget that life is a dream. Dreams have no logic. Let's wait to wake up. -Loved nerve.
- Being against the clamors of nature to sell to men, the laws of slavery are abolished. -Miguel Hidalgo y Costilla.
- There is something as necessary as daily bread, and it is the peace of each day. The peace without which bread is bitter. -Loved nerve.
- Let the children of the farmer and the street sweeper be educated as those of the richest landowner! -Jose maria morelos and pavon.
- The measure of our hatred is identical to the measure of our love. But aren't these but ways of naming a passion? -Carlos Fuentes.
- So many soldiers to guard a poor woman, but with my blood I will form a heritage for my children. -Josefa Ortiz de Dominguez.
- Live the independence! Long live America! Death to bad government! -Miguel Hidalgo y Costilla.
- A lot of light is like a lot of shadow: it doesn't let you see. -Octavio Paz.
- The pardon is for criminals, not for defenders of the fatherland. - Miguel Hidalgo y Costilla.
- The tongue guards the neck. - Miguel Hidalgo y Costilla.
- I am a servant of the nation because it assumes the greatest legitimate and inviolable sovereignty. -Jose maria morelos and pavon.
- Dying is nothing when you die for the country. - Jose maria morelos and pavon.
- America is free and independent from any other nation. - Miguel Hidalgo y Costilla.
- Let the mask of independence be removed, because everyone already knows the fate of Fernando VII. –José María Morelos.
- You will no longer suffer the yoke of the oppressors, whose language is insult, artifice and lies, and whose law is based on their ambition, revenge and resentment. - Agustín de Iturbide.
- As a politician I have made two serious mistakes that have caused my downfall: having wanted to please everyone and not knowing how to trust my true friends. -Francisco Indalecio Madero.
- Regardless of the size of the city or town where men or women are born, they are finally the size of their work, the size of their will to magnify and enrich their brothers.- Ignacio Allende.
- Long live Mexico, children of the Chingada! A true battle cry, charged with a particular electricity, this phrase is a challenge and an affirmation, a shot aimed at an imaginary enemy, and an explosion in the air…. With that cry, which is de rigueur to shout every September 15, the anniversary of Independence, we affirm and affirm our homeland, in front of, against and despite others. And who are the others? The others are the "sons of the chingada": foreigners, bad Mexicans, our enemies, our rivals. In any case, the "others". That is, all those who are not what we are. –Octavio Díaz.
- I am going to die for our country but I die happy, because when I proclaimed your independence I did so with the consent of my reason and because it is just, holy and necessary, I forgive the enemies who harm me and I hope from the father of lights, in whose bosom I am going to rest, relieve my brothers from the oppression of the Spanish government. –Don Manuel Sabino Crespo.
- Long live the Catholic religion! Long live Fernando VII! Long live the Homeland and reign forever in this American Continent our sacred patron, the Blessed Virgin of Guadalupe! The gachupines die! Death to bad government! –Grito de Dolores by Miguel Hidalgo y Costilla.
- Is it possible, Americans, that you have to take up arms against your brothers, who are determined at the risk of their lives to free us from the tyranny of the Europeans, and that you stop being their slaves? Do you not know that this war is only against them and that therefore it would be a war without enemies, which would be concluded in a day if you did not help it fight? - Miguel Hidalgo y Costilla.