Perhaps the enemies of liberty are such only because they judge it by its loud voice.
Jose Marti

Talent is a gift that brings with it an obligation to serve the world, and not ourselves, for it is not of our making.
Jose Marti

The force of passion is balanced by the force of interest.
Jose Marti

The struggles waged by nations are weak only when they lack support in the hearts of their women.
Jose Marti

The vote is a trust more delicate than any other, for it involves not just the interests of the voter, but his life, honor and future as well.
Jose Marti

The wretch who lives without freedom feels like dressing in the mud from the streets Those who have you, o Liberty, do not know. you. Those who do not have you should not speak of you, but win you.
Jose Marti

There is happiness in duty, although it may not seem so.
Jose Marti

To busy oneself with what is futile when one can do something useful, to attend to what is simple when one has the mettle to attempt what is difficult, is to strip talent of its dignity.
Jose Marti

To give one's life is a right only when one gives it unselfishly.
Jose Marti

To use for our exclusive benefit what is not ours is theft.
Jose Marti

We are free, but not to be evil, not to be indifferent to human suffering, not to profit from the people, from the work created and sustained through their spirit of political association, while refusing to contribute to the political state that we profit from.
Jose Marti

We light the oven so that everyone may bake bread in it.
Jose Marti