I do not want history to record me as someone who has bequeathed to his nation the institution of despotism.

I am mortal. I want the nation to get used to freedom before I die.

Unless a nation's life faces peril, war is murder.

I have no religion, and at times I wish all religions at the bottom of the sea. He is a weak ruler who needs religion to uphold his government; it is as if he would catch his people in a trap.

Do you want to be a man of today or a man of tomorrow?

Would not obeying to my mother's warnings, who is at least 25 years older than me, be returning to the past? And rebelling against her would mean ruining my mother's, who, I am convinced that, is a virtuous high woman, heart and evaluations. I do not find this right, either.