Great Throughts Treasury

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Domingo Faustino Sarmiento

Argentinean Activist, Intellectual, Writer, Statesman and President of Argentina

"To govern is to educate."

"Do not try to economize gauchos blood. This is a credit that must be made useful to the country. Blood is all that human beings have."

"Everyday irritated kid sensibilities and desires to find in my conduct actions that denigrate me. Should be more prudent, but in point of prudence, what happens to me great sinners, who leave for the time of death the amendment. When in forty years, I will be wise, but for now I will be as I am and nothing more."

"I had to wait for answer, that the rumor of battle cease, that the actors have all scenes of the great drama, to give you my opinion on the policy to be followed by Chile after his big victory in the Pacific: Refuse entry into the Atlantic and have the courage to not be right in Patagonia and Magallanes, otherwise it would constitute a state from Tarapacá to Santa Cruz, with fifteen hundred leagues long, without appreciable width, three republics and two seas to save .]"

"I shall not die without seeing employees in railways, in this country, I'm not saying 800,000 hard drives but eight hundred million! The Senate roared. I need to know that future generations to help the progress of my country, I had to acquire unshakable confidence in its future. Consisting need those laughs, so you know also what kind of fool I had to deal."

"I have contributed to my writing tenaciously advising the Chilean government to take that step ... The Argentine government, deceived by a false glory, causes idle question not worth changing two notes, Buenos Aires For such possession is useless. Magallanes belongs Chile and Patagonia ... maybe all I can think after my shows, how dare the government of Buenos Aires to hold or even Mentar rights. Neither shadow nor pretext of controversy have left . [9] It is a desert land, frigid and useless.'s not worth spending a powder keg in his defense. obstinately Why pursue a nominal occupation?"

"Ideas cannot be killed"

"I still aimlessly without fixed target, yielding to impulses that lead me forward"

"I was appointed President of the Republic, and not my friends ."

"It is the practice of all tyrants rely on a natural feeling, but thoughtless, peoples, to dominate."

"It's wild feel an invincible repugnance America, could not help it. Such scoundrels are but a filthy Indians, who would send hang up now if reappear. Indians are a lousy, because that is all. Unable to progress, their extermination is providential and useful, SUBLIME AND BIG. exterminate They should not even forgive the little that has already instinctive hatred civilized man."

"Man, people, nation, state, all: everything is in the humble school desks"

"It is forbidden for a brother of the president was minister, but what prevents decency"

"People do not have an active character in the events. Suffer, pay and wait"

"The elections of 1857 were the freest and most orderly who submitted the Latin . To win it, our base of operations has been the courage and terror, they have cleverly used this result [of elections March 29]. Gauchos who refused to vote for our candidates were put in the stocks or sent to the borders with the Indians and burned their huts. Bands of armed soldiers roamed the streets slashing and chasing opponents. Such was we sow terror among all these people, that the 29th triumph unopposed. Fear is endemic in this village. This is the lever that always govern the locals, who are fools, fools and fools."

"The Federation has left the gaucho, the ranch, the isolation of the province, of barbarism, but had a powerful and lasting basis: the people ... Each province reconcentrated inside itself, and finally they were building relationships by war, by alliances of warlords, by treaties, etc ... by Rosas, in short, who rejoined the Nation."

"The Jewish people. Scattered throughout the land and practicing usury accumulating million, rejecting the homeland is born and dies for an ideal bathing barely Jordan, and he does not think ever again. This perpetual dream that twenty or thirty centuries, it is the origin of the race, continues today disrupting the economy of the societies in which they live, but which are not part. And now in the barbaric Russia and Prussia illustrated rises the cry of revulsion against this people that believes chosen and lacks human feeling, love of neighbor, the attachment to the land, the cult of heroism, virtue , of the great facts wherever they occur."

"The first act was to remove administrative Roses schools of men and women of Buenos Aires, with rents that found endowed by the State, doing the same with the teachers of the University, having modesty appropriate to the messages fact that those deserving citizens continued to teach patriotism and without compensation. Ravages made in Argentina by that stupid evil, not rectified in half a century, for not only slaughtered or forced into exile men of lights that had the country but closed the doors of the houses of education, because it has the fine smell and know that the lights are safer support of tyrants."

"The good salary, food plentiful, good dress and freedom educate an adult school as a child"

"The peaks are achieved by doubling the effort"

"We doubt the existence of Paraguay. Descendants of races Guarani Indians savages and slaves who act on instinct or no reason. In them, perpetuating the colonial primitive barbarism ... Dogs are ignorant ... Al frantic idiot drunk raw and fierce accompanying Lopez thousands of animals who obey and die of fear. It is providential that a tyrant has made all these people die Guarani. It was necessary to purge the land of all that human excrescence, lost race which got rid of contagion."

"They are poor satellites waiting to see who has won applause. La Rioja, Santiago del Estero and San Luis are scraps policies, provinces that have neither city nor men, nor anything that is worth. Poorest are entities that exist in the earth"

"When honest men go home, crooks enter the government."

"There is no news yet of any citizen who was not to vote (plebiscite of 26, 27 and 28 March 1835 in Buenos Aires by which ruled in granting citizenship Sum of public power Roses) I must say for the sake of historical truth, there was never a government more popular and desired no more supported by the view ... that of Don Juan Manuel de Rosas ."

"You can judge the degree of civilization of a people by the social position of women."

"Will we be able to exterminate the Indians? On the savages of America feel an invincible repugnance could not help it. Such rabble are only a few Indians who send nasty hang up now if reapareciesen. Lautaro and Caupolicán are a lousy Indians, because that's all . Unable to progress, their extermination is providential and useful, sublime and great. They should be exterminated without even forgive the small, who already has the instinctive hatred civilized man ."