“Before my people bite the dust, the whole world should bite the dust, and then my people. But only then!”
Argentina Audiotapes (1957)
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An Appeal to the Young (1880)

“Other dogs bite only their enemies, whereas I bite also my friends in order to save them.”
Stobaeus, iii. 13. 44
Quoted by Stobaeus

“I speak my mind, because it hurts to bite my tongue”

Her proposed epitaph for herself, quoted in Vanity Fair (June 1925)

“The day I leave the power, inside my pockets will only be dust.”
Quoted in Salazar: biographical study - page 383; of Franco Nogueira - Published by Atlantis Publishing, 1977

“Pointing to a pile of dust, that had collected, I foolishly begged to have as many anniversaries of my birth, as were represented by the dust. But I forgot to ask that the years should be accompanied by youth.”
Ego pulveris hausti
ostendens cumulum, quot haberet corpora pulvis,
tot mihi natales contingere vana rogavi;
excidit, ut peterem iuvenes quoque protinus annos.
Book XIV, lines 136–139; translation by A. S. Kline
Metamorphoses (Transformations)