"The Moncada Program was fulfilled, and over-fulfilled. For some time now, we have been pursuing even greater and previously unimaginable dreams. Today, great battles are being waged in the area of ideas, while confronting problems associated with the world situation, perhaps the most critical ever to face humanity.”
“In the unity of this people lies the strength, in the unity of this people lies its invincibility, and the history of this revolution proves that a united people is invincible. The history of this revolution proves that in unity there is strength! The history of this revolution shows that the worst threat to the success of a revolution and a people is divisionism.”
“The 26 of July is a sad date for imperialism; it is a painful date for Yankee imperialists, for the foreign monopolies, for the major landowners, for the great industry and finances magnates, for the big speculators, for the big gamblers, for the big contrabandists; it is a painful, sad date for all those big generals who used to act as if they owned the country; it is a painful, sad date for the politicians; it is a painful, sad date for the big criminals; it is a painful, sad date for all the enemies of the people.
"And our people is one of those peoples that never hesitates in the face of sacrifice, it is one of the peoples that has never hesitated in the face of the price it has to pay for its dignity and its freedom; a people that has never hesitated, and never will, in the face of what it has to pay for its happiness.”
"But it was not always like this and, in contrast, the memories of that first 26 also came to our minds, that afternoon in which everything was sorrow and pain, in which the death of our comrades and the pain of a defeat that forced our Homeland to wait weighed in our minds whose limits we did not imagine at that time.”
"And so, that 26 of July was just a minute for us, when the fight seemed to end, when the effort to be in the battle for the liberation of our people seemed to end, it was not the end, but the beginning.”
"That 26 of July was the culmination of the effort of a group of young men full of ideals who threw themselves into that uneven and difficult fight."
"(...) 26 of July and Sierra Maestra; those are two names that will weigh deeply on the heart of each of us.”
“And this was not only the lesson of the 26 of July, it has been the lesson learned throughout our history: from Céspedes, Máximo Gómez and Agramonte, to Martí and Maceo”.
"José Martí, the Apostle of Independence, a genius of the ideas, and of the noblest ideas that can ever be conceived; the National Hero of our homeland, whose ideas inspired the Centennial Generation and today inspire and will continue to inspire all of our people more and more."