I leave you the best phrases of the Mexican Revolution of some of its great protagonists, such as Francisco Villa, Emiliano Zapata, Lázaro Cárdenas, Álvaro Obregón, Francisco I. Madero, Porfirio Díaz and many more.
You may also be interested in these revolutionary quotes, these by Emiliano Zapata or these by Porfirio Díaz.
-Government or individual who delivers natural resources to foreign companies, betrays the country. -Lazaro Cardenas.
-Don't be afraid of enemies who attack you, fear friends who flatter you. -Alvaro Obregon.
-I want to die being a slave of principles, not of men. -Emiliano Zapata.
-What would the world be like if we were all generals, if we were all capitalists or we were all poor? -Francisco Villa.
-The responsibility for my actions will live as long as its consequences. -Alvaro Obregon.
-Victoriano Huerta can defeat Orozco, let's give him command. –Francisco I. Madero.
-If each of the Mexicans did their part, the homeland would be saved. -Belisario Domínguez.
-By conquering our freedoms we have conquered a new weapon; that weapon is the vote. - Francisco I. Madero.
-I will live until there is someone who changes his life for mine. -Alvaro Obregon.
-The Republic has frankly entered the path of unquestionable progress. -Porfirio Diaz.
-I am determined to fight against everything and everyone with no other bulwark than the trust and support of my people. - Emiliano Zapata.
-If there is no justice for the people, there may be no peace for the government. -Emiliano Zapata.
-Earth and Freedom. –Ricardo Flores Magón.
-Rebellion is life: submission is death. –Ricardo Flores Magón.
-Effective suffrage, No reelection. –Francisco I. Madero.
-Poor Mexico, so far from God and so close to the United States. -Porfirio Diaz.
-Madero has awakened the tiger, we will see if he is able to tame it. -Porfirio Diaz.
"I promise you, Mr. President, that tomorrow everything will be over." –Victoriano Huerta.
-More than a military man, I am a revolutionary of ideas, and if necessary, I wield the word, the pen or the weapons ”. –Roque González Garza.
-There are the leaves, send me more tamales. –Pascual Orozco.
-Here we are all a bit thieves. But I only have one hand, while my opponents have two. -Alvaro Obregon.
-We are going to dispute the glory of dying for the country, which is the greatest of glories! -Alvaro Obregon.
-The true mission of the army consists, not in unconditionally supporting any character who declares himself the master of a people when he is oppressed. -Ricardo Flores Magón.
-Inculturation is one of the greatest misfortunes of my race. The education of the children of my race is something that should not go unnoticed by rulers and citizens. The educational problem has never been given the necessary attention. -Francisco Villa.
What the people need to enjoy freedom is their economic emancipation, the unshakable basis of true freedom. –Ricardo Flores Magón.
-We were very hard, sometimes even to cruelty; but all this was then necessary for life and progress. -Porfirio Diaz.
-Mr President of the Republic. I have learned that in Mexico it is said that I have defected. I strongly protest against this false version and I ask you that this my protest be made public. –Aureliano Blanquet.
-They are rare, those who with absolute power, retain moderation, and do not give free rein to their passions. -Francisco I. Madero.
-I'd rather die standing than always live on my knees. -Emiliano Zapata.
-It is fair that we all aspire to be more, but also that we all stand up for our actions. -Francisco Villa.
-All parents generally recommend their children flee from vices. I have always believed that there is only one vice, which is called "excess" and that from this, all men should try to free themselves. -Alvaro Obregon.
-It is more difficult than I imagined to govern Mexico. –Francisco I. Madero.
-No one does well what he does not know; consequently there will never be a republic with ignorant people, whatever plan is adopted. -Francisco Villa.
-Democracy is the only one that can establish harmony in all social classes. -Venustiano Carranza.
-Run him, we'll find out later. -Francisco Villa.
"I want you, General Huerta, to guard me and take command of the troops." –Francisco I. Madero.
-The three great enemies of the Mexican people are militarism, clericalism and capitalism. We can end capitalism and clericalism, but afterwards, who will end us? The homeland needs to free itself from its liberators. -Alvaro Obregon.
-Ignorance and obscurantism in all times have produced nothing but herds of slaves for tyranny. -Emiliano Zapata.
-The service has not corrupted my political ideals and that I believe that democracy is the only just principle of the government, even when taking it to the field of practice is possible only in highly developed towns. –Francisco I. Madero.
-Diaz's only sin was getting old. -Alvaro Obregon.
-In Mexico, as a democratic republic, public power can have no other origin or other basis than the national will, and this cannot be subject to formulas carried out in a fraudulent way -Francisco I. Madero.
-In our country those who dedicate themselves to banditry are the landowners, the rural people and the generals of Porfirio Díaz. Humble people like me fight for justice and better luck. -Francisco Villa.
-The good intention of the president is not enough, the collective factor represented by the workers is indispensable. The people of Mexico are no longer suggested by hollow phrases: freedom of conscience, economic freedom. -Lazaro Cardenas.
-Morality is the force called to rule the world in modern life. -Alvaro Obregon.
-When the land belongs to the poor, then it will be free, because it will stop being poor. –Ricardo Flores Magón.
-Education is the most important and transcendental function of public power. -Alvaro Obregon.
-By conquering our freedoms we have conquered a new weapon. That weapon is the vote. –Francisco I. Madero.
-A good government can only exist when there are good citizens. -Francisco I. Madero.
- Against pride, humility, sighs the friar. Against pride, rebellion! The men shouted. –Ricardo Flores Magón.
-We must distinguish the so-called revolutionaries who were formed encouraged by the political and social revolution, from those who have proven to be only bureaucratic revolutionaries. -Lazaro Cardenas.
-I am not a Catholic, a Protestant, or an atheist. I am a free thinker. -Francisco Villa.
-If you want the presidential chair, line up. -Plutarco Elías Calles.
-I, Pancho Villa, was a loyal man that destiny brought into the world to fight for the good of the poor, and that I will never betray or forget my duty. -Francisco Villa.
- Companions in arms and gentlemen. Do not believe that the one who is going to speak to you is a philosopher, I am a man of the people, but you will understand that when these men speak, they speak from the heart. -Francisco Villa.
-If you want to be a bird, fly, if you want to be a worm, crawl, but do not scream when you are crushed. -Emiliano Zapata.
-First I pay a teacher than a general. -Francisco Villa.
-The peoples, in their constant effort to ensure that the ideals of freedom and justice triumph, are forced at certain historical moments to make the greatest sacrifices. -Francisco I. Madero.
-I can leave the Presidency of Mexico without any remorse, but what I cannot do is stop serving this country while I live. -Porfirio Diaz.
- Shootings in dark streets, at night, followed by screams, blasphemies and unforgivable insults. Shattering of stained glass, dry blows, woes of pain, more gunshots. –José Clemente Orozco.
-Order and progress. -Porfirio Diaz.
-The earth will return to those who work it with their hands. -Emiliano Zapata.
- Mexican people: support this plan with arms in your hands, and you will make the nation's prosperity and well-being. –Plan de Ayala.
-Freedom, Justice and Law. -Emiliano Zapata.
-It is essential that the independent element think seriously about the future of the country, shake off its heavy indifference, make a vigorous effort, organize and fight for the vindication of its rights. –Francisco I. Madero.
-I am more proud of the victories obtained in the field of democracy than for those achieved on the battlefields. -Francisco I. Madero.
-Mexico is ready for democracy. -Porfirio Diaz.
-I will retire from power at the end of the current period of government; I have tried to leave the presidency several times, but I have been put under pressure not to do so and I have remained in government for the good of the nation. -Porfirio Diaz.
-When the new republic is established, there will be no more army in Mexico. Armies are the greatest supports of tyranny. There can be no dictator without his army. -Francisco Villa.
- 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 I. Madero.
-Freedom is not conquered on your knees, but on your feet, returning blow for blow, inflicting wound for wound, death for death, humiliation for humiliation, punishment for punishment. Let the blood flow in torrents, since she is the price of his freedom. -Ricardo Flores Magón.
-We are adherents of principles and not of men! -Emiliano Zapata.
- At this time there are many ambitious politicians, who do no good to my race; they spend their time arguing nonsense and stealing money that belongs to the town. -Francisco Villa.
-The Constitution is dead. –Ricardo, Enrique and Jesús Flores Magón.
-The land belongs to those who work it. -Emiliano Zapata.
-In this twilight of my life only one wish remains: the happiness of my country, the happiness of my own. -Porfirio Diaz.
-The insult, the prison and the threat of death cannot prevent the utopian from dreaming. –Ricardo Flores Magón.
-I believe that a ruler of Mexico who does not have in his soul these defects or qualities, whatever you want to call them, will never triumph. –Victoriano Huerta.
-Equality does not exist, nor can it exist. It is a lie that we can all be equal; each one must be given their rightful place. -Francisco Villa.
-May men be mutilated and succumbed by principles, but principles should not succumb or be mutilated by men. -Alvaro Obregon.
-Nobody can take a fifty thousand peso cannon shot. -Alvaro Obregon.
-I believe that the main misfortunes that have occurred in my country have been at the initiative of the gringos, and I call them that because I can't even see them in painting. -Francisco Villa.
-Dog with bone in mouth, neither bites nor barks. -Porfirio Diaz.
- Justified governments, those whose actions respond to general opinion and public sentiment, do not and should not fear the press. -Ricardo Flores Magón.
-May no citizen remain in power and this will be the last revolution. -Porfirio Diaz.
-I forgive the one who steals and the one who kills, but the one who betrays, never. -Emiliano Zapata.
-Kill them hot. -Porfirio Diaz.
-The dictatorship of the bourgeoisie or the proletariat is always tyranny and freedom cannot be achieved through tyranny. –Ricardo Flores Magón.
-In politics, another war without quarter, another fight for power and wealth. Infinite subdivision of factions, irrepressible desire for revenge. Underground intrigues between today's friends, tomorrow's enemies, ready to exterminate each other when the time comes. –José Clemente Orozco.
-We represent legality during the armed struggle, and currently we are the revolutionaries, not only of the Mexican Nation, but the revolutionaries of Latin America, the revolutionaries of the universe. –Venustiano Carranza.
-It is time for prejudices to end, for society to be established on stronger, more natural, wiser, more just and nobler foundations. -Francisco Villa.
-If we can't do anything to change the past, let's do something in the present to change the future. –Victoriano Huerta.
-Only anarchists, they will know that we are anarchists and we will advise them not to call themselves that so as not to scare idiots. –Ricardo Flores Magón.
-To serve the country, there is never a surplus of those who arrive, nor lack of those who leave. –Venustiano Carranza.
-A seventy-year-old ruler is not what a young and spirited nation like Mexico needs. -Porfirio Diaz.
-With what rights will we claim the title of citizens for our children if we are not worthy of being it? -Alvaro Obregon.