"I'm grateful that I was thrust into a world of misery and poverty, and thus came to know the people for whom I was later to fight."
"A nation's destiny can be averted only by a storm of hot passion. But only those who are passionate themselves can arouse passion in others. It's only the capacity for passionate feeling that, like hammer blows, will open the door to the hearts of the people."
"As the goddess of misery took me in her arms and so often threatened to break me, the will to resist grew, and in the end the will triumphed."
"The most precious possession you have in the world is your own people."
"Nothing, which is great in this world, was given as a gift to man. Everything had to be bitterly, difficulty won in struggle."
"The family is the smallest but most precious unit in the building of a State."
"Man has become great through perpetual struggle. In perpetual peace his greatness must decline.”
"Our duty is to teach men to see whatever is lovely and truly wonderful in life, and not to become prematurely ill-tempered and spiteful. We wish fully to enjoy what is beautiful, cling to it - and to avoid, as far as possible, anything that might do harm to people like ourselves."
"You consider me a man without education, a barbarian. And yes, we are barbarians! We mean to be. It's an honorary title. We are the ones who will rejuvenate the world."