José Cecilio del Valle citations

“Perez Brignoli, Hector. A Brief History of Central America. Translated by Ricardo B. Sawrey and Susana Strettridi Sawrey. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1989.”

“How can one govern without taxes, without strength, without authority?”

“Bumgartner, Louise. Jose del Valle of Central America. Durham, N. C.: Duke University Press, 1963”

“America shall not lag a century behind Europe: it will stride as an equal first, and lead later; it will, in the end, be the most illuminated by the sciences just as it is most illuminated by the sun.”

“Law. Law. That is what saves nations from the most imminent dangers.”

“Politically, America is the same as it is physically: the land of the earthquakes.”