"What treason is this that you have meditated against me? Me, who have ever treated you with honor, confiding in your words, as in those of a brother?"

"For my part, I will go to the south, and he who has the courage to follow me, let him come. He who has not, let him return to Panama."

"I will leave my mark on this world."

"I would rather be feared than loved."

"Their king is a puppet; I am the master now."