"The most perfect system of government is that which produces the greatest possible sum of happiness, the greatest sum of social security, and the greatest sum of political stability."

"The United States seems destined by Providence to plague America with miseries in the name of freedom."

"America is ungovernable for us. He who serves a revolution plows in the sea."

"The people of America have risen to throw off the yoke of the Spanish government, and to recover their rights."

"I have been a soldier for twenty years, and I have never seen a battle won by a committee."