“The Revolution is beginning now. Our Revolution will be no easy task, but a harsh and dangerous undertaking …”
Quotes
“The republic was not free in 1895, and the dream entertained by the ‘mambises’ was frustrated at the last minute; the Revolution did not materialize and was frustrated by its enemies. This time the Revolution has the support of the entire people, of all the revolutionaries, of the honorable militants. Its strength is so big and uncontrollable that this time victory is guaranteed!”
“It is important that, as from today, that the people know and understand that the Revolution could not be a task of one, two, or three days, that the evils that affect us could not be eradicated overnight, and that it would be necessary to work very hard. Just as the war was not won in a single day, […], the Revolution would also have to be made step by step, little by little, and without any other maxim but that of the final victory.”
“Cuba’s fate must be bright, because our people has set off, our people is standing on its feet and is determined to do anything. And when peoples rise as the Cuban people have done, when peoples set off as the Cuban people have done, with its Rebel Army at the forefront, then there is no other alternative.”
"(...) and if one day it becomes necessary to fight a foreign enemy or a movement that attacks the Revolution, it won't be some limited engagement, it'll be the entire people that fight"
"(...) when we no longer have the enemy before us, when the war is over, we ourselves are potentially the only enemies of the Revolution".
“[…] our firmest column, our best troop; the only troop that is capable of winning the war all by itself: That troop is the people! No General can have more power than the people; no army can be stronger that the people […]”
“This tribute could not have been more pure, this gesture could not have been more noble, nor could it have been more noble, brothers of Venezuela, to have received from this noble and heroic people a greater favor than the one received by the people of Cuba from the people of Venezuela tonight”.
“The Americas is far too much on guard to be subdued again. These peoples have become all too aware of their destiny to resign themselves again to the subjugation and wretched abjection in which we have been living for more than a century”.
“Our Revolution has four things and they precisely constitute reasons to be admired by the Cubans: this is, in the first place, a revolution that has people; it is a revolution where the government of the republic can say that it has an army; it is a revolution that makes laws that are truly revolutionary.”
“The Revolution must aspire to have the friendship and congeniality of all the peoples of the world; the Revolution must aspire to have trade relations with all the peoples of the world; the Revolution must aspire to all friendly relations with all the peoples of the world.”
“We will turn these military barracks into a school! So we will turn these military barracks into a school that will be attended by hundreds of children, because our true military barracks are in the people; our Revolution is defended by the people! And if we have to fight against a foreign enemy, the whole people will be ready to defend it!”