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"I accommodated practically all of the liberation movements, including those of Latin America."
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"Yes, my life is a life of combat; I can say that this has never stopped for a single instant. It is a combat that started for me at the age of 16. I'm 90 years old now, and my motivation hasn't changed; it's the same fervour that drives me."
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"The best argument against democracy is a five-minute conversation with the average voter."

"Governments tend not to solve problems, only to rearrange them."

"If a nation expects to be ignorant and free, in a state of civilization, it expects what never was and never will be."

"I just think that - when a country needs more income and we do, we're only taking in 15 percent of GDP, I mean, that - that - when a country needs more income, they should get it from the people that have it."

"The people will save their government, if the government itself will allow them."

"Conquest is not in our principles. It is inconsistent with our government."
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