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.
-Do not fear the enemies who attack you, fear the friends who flatter you. -Alvaro Obregon.
-I want to die a slave to principles, not to 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 to change their 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, let there be no peace for the government. -Emiliano Zapata.
-Land 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 it will all 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 you go the leaves, send me more tamales. -Pascual Orozco.
-Here we are all a bit thieves. But I have only one hand, while my opponents have two. -Alvaro Obregon.
-Let us return to dispute the glory of dying for the country, which is the greatest of glories! -Alvaro Obregon.
-The true mission of the army is not to unconditionally support any character who declares himself the master of a people when he is oppressed. -Ricardo Flores Magón.
-Ignorance 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 the rulers and the 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 tough, sometimes to the point of 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 beg 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 that their children run away 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.
-Nobody does well what he does not know; therefore a republic will never be made with ignorant people, whatever plan is adopted. -Francisco Villa.
-Democracy is the only one that can establish harmony in all social classes. -Venustiano Carranza.
-Shoot him, we'll find out later. -Francisco Villa.
-I want you, General Huerta, to guard me and take command of the troop. -Francisco I. Madero.
-The three great enemies of the Mexican people are militarism, clericalism, and capitalism. We can end capitalism and clericalism, but then 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 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 cannot have any other origin or base other 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 engage in 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 cease to be 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.
-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.
-Comrades in arms and gentlemen. Do not think 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.
-I pay a teacher first than a general. -Francisco Villa.
-The peoples, in their constant effort to ensure that the ideals of freedom and justice triumph, are compelled in certain historical moments to make the greatest sacrifices. -Francisco I. Madero.
-I can leave the Presidency of Mexico without any regrets, but what I cannot do is stop serving this country while I live. -Porfirio Diaz.
-Shootouts in dark streets at night, followed by screaming, profanity and unforgivable insults. Shattering of stained glass, dry blows, woes of pain, more gunshots. -José Clemente Orozco.
-Order and progress. -Porfirio Diaz.
-The land will return to those who work it with their hands. -Emiliano Zapata.
- Mexican people: support this plan with your arms in your hands, and you will achieve the prosperity and well-being of the country. -Plan of 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 indifferentism, make a vigorous effort, organize itself and fight for the vindication of its rights. -Francisco I. Madero.
-I am more proud of the victories obtained on the field of democracy than 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.
-In this age there are many ambitious politicians, who do my race no good; 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.
-Insult, imprisonment 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 these defects or qualities in his soul, 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.
-Let men be mutilated and succumbed by principles, but principles not succumbed or mutilated by men. -Alvaro Obregon.
-Nobody can take a fifty thousand peso cannon shot. -Alvaro Obregon.
-I think 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.
-Let 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.
-Politically, another war without quarter, another fight for power and wealth. Infinite subdivision of the factions, irrepressible desires 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 establish itself 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 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.
-In order to serve the country, there is never a surplus of those who arrive and there is never a lack of those who leave. -Venustiano Carranza.
-A seventy-year-old ruler is not what a spirited young nation like Mexico needs. -Porfirio Diaz.
-With what rights will we claim for our children the title of citizens if we are not worthy of being it? -Alvaro Obregon.
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