Dennis Chavez's Quotes

We are Americans when we go to war, and when we return, we are Mexicans.

If the Constitution is worth anything, if the Declaration of Independence is worth anything, if the boys who died on the field of battle did not die in vain, fair employment practices are correct and necessary.

Either we are all free, or we fail; democracy must belong to all of us.

I should like to be remembered as the man who raised a voice against... placing limitations on the freedom of the individual.

So, Mr. President, what is wrong with the fair employment practice bill?

I would consider all of the legislation which I have supported meaningless if I were to sit idly by, silent, during a period which may go down in history as an era when we permitted the curtailment of our liberties.

I am convinced that the path to a new, better and possible world is not capitalism, the path is socialism.

An infernal machine that produces every minute an impressive amount of poor, 26 million poor in 10 years are 2.6 million per year of new poor, this is the road, well, the road to hell.

I hereby accuse the North American empire of being the biggest menace to our planet.

We must confront the privileged elite who have destroyed a large part of the world.

The left is back, and it's the only path we have to get out of the spot to which the right has sunken us. Socialism builds and capitalism destroys.

I have said it already, I am convinced that the way to build a new and better world is not capitalism. Capitalism leads us straight to hell.

We're not perfect, but we do have democracy.

No part of the human community can live entirely on its own planet, with its own laws of motion and cut off from the rest of humanity.

There is no turning back.

Convinced as I am and as I am from my government that the world needs a new moral architecture over all I believe that this should be the first topic to debate in our world of today, ethics, moral.

I remember. How many minutes do I have left President? About one, one minute.

They do not walk in... the path of Christ.

I am a President held prisoner, that I haven't resigned and I will not resign.

Long live the Unity of Latin America.

Venezuela has changed forever.

This has been a great victory for the Venezuelan people.