"The United States has no right to tell us what to do. We are a sovereign nation."

"A revolution is a war to the death between the past and the future."

"I think that a man should not live beyond the age when he begins to deteriorate, when the flame that lighted the brightest moment of his life has weakened."

"I am not an optimist. I am a realist. I believe in the triumph of the revolution."

"The revolution is irreversible."