Peru Quotes

Let us be free, the rest matters not.

Soldiers, you are going to finish the greatest task which heaven can charge to a man: to save a whole world from slavery... Soldiers, Peru and the whole of America are waiting for you to deliver peace, the child of victory. Even free Europe looks upon you with favor: for the freedom of the New World is the life of the universe.

My best friend is he who rights my wrongs or reproaches my mistakes.

Another factor aggravating the isolation of the South American republics one from another is that in almost every instance their centers of population and of industrial development are distant from their frontiers. Moreover, the border zones between the different countries are, with few exceptions, wildernesses of mountains, desert or jungle. The Andes Mountains not only present a natural barrier which stretches the length of the continent between the east and west coast countries, but they also act to keep apart Pacific coast nations such as Peru and Ecuador.

We don't want a country populated by children feeding themselves from garbage dumps.

We need to make ourselves deaf to the clamor of the whole world, because war feeds on despotism and is not fought for love of God

If no man could become rich in Peru, no man could become poor.

It is hard to redistribute wealth of there is no productive class producing it.

If you do not accept the yoke of the Church and the King of Spain, I will make war on you everywhere in every way that I can. The death and destruction will be your fault.

The Inca honored the men of the blood royal by permitting them to bore their ears where women do today, but with larger holes … and this was the sign of nobility and royal caste ...

I was in Peru and visited a building near Lima built by the Incas. It was low in height, with no windows at all, but all the way in the back there was air movement. And I couldn't figure out how they'd done it; it was incredible.

After Victor Paz's government, I was still in politics, but I personally spent a lot of time consulting and working with Argentina, with Peru, and in Brazil.

I began visiting Lima's prisons back in 2007, when my first novel, 'Lost City Radio,' was published in Peru.

Among the colonists were spies who took note of the conversations and the schemes of the natives and supplied the information to the governors, who sent it to Cuzco without delay, to be submitted to the Inca. In this way all was made secure.

God, as you tell me, was put to death by the very men He created. But my God still looks down on His children.

As for your pope of whom you speak, he must be mad to speak of giving away countries that do not belong to him.

I have been working with UNICEF Peru a lot. I am aiming to educate children, mostly because once adults reach adulthood, your views are shaped. With children, you can really teach them, you can open their eyes to what is really going on. The only way we can open their eyes and free them is by educating them.

I fear that, tired of anarchy, you may hope at the end for a return of oppression and that you may welcome the yoke of the first fortunate adventurer who shows up, who, far from consolidating your destiny, will only prolong your servitude

At a superficial glance this would seem to be an attempt to get rid of one dictatorship clearly adopted by the people of the whole Peruvian Republic, and recognized by foreign governments, including Chili, for a new dictatorship, adopted by the majority of a self-constituted meeting of 110 men of Lima and Callao, and recognized as yet by nobody else except Chili

General San Martin will never shed the blood of his compatriots, and he will unsheath his sword only against the enemies of the independence of South America.

My chief weapon is public opinion: The Spaniards, incapable of directing it, have prohibited its use; but now they are experiencing its force and importance.

Some of the most learned of the people were chosen to make known the lives of those lords in songs.

As for my conduct in public office, my compatriots, as is usually the case, will divide their opinions; their children will render true judgment.

As regards religion, the earliest Inca commanded that the Sun should be regarded as supreme god, and that in his temple great sacrifices should be held and thanks should be given, especially for having sent his son [the Inca] to rule them… giving the people to understand that the laws were to be obeyed as the Sun himself commanded it.