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But it so happens, and it will ever happen so, that they who have lived to serve their country - no matter how weak their efforts may have been - are sure to receive the thanks and blessings of its people.

They made us many promises, more than I can remember, but they never kept but one; they promised to take our land, and they took it.

Like the American soldiers who went before them, they are putting their lives on the line to protect ours.

It's with them that we have constituted a liberation front and brought our logistic support to armies to help their countries come out of colonialism and establish a national internal regime.

Let those only return to their homes who are called by the imperative duties which they owe to their families, and those who by their glorious wounds have deserved the credit of their country.

In any country there must be people who have to die. They are the sacrifices any nation has to make to achieve law and order.

There's a tradition in the history of dissent in authoritarian countries of a certain kind of dissident, and their form of dissent is to live their lives as normally as possible.

Government's first duty is to protect the people, not run their lives.

From a very early age I had imbibed the opinion that it was every man's duty to do all that lay in his power to leave his country as good as he had found it.