70 Phrases from Juan Pablo Duarte , Thoughts of one of the parents of the Dominican Republic, together with Matías Ramón Mella and Francisco del Rosario Sánchez. Also some of his few well-known poems. Do you know any more? What do you think about this great historical man?
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1-Living without Homeland, is the same as living without Honor.
2-The truth does not exist, there is only the perception we have of it.
3-Politics is not speculation; Is a purest science and the most dignified, after philosophy, to occupy the noble intelligences.
4-Our country must be free and independent of any foreign power or sink the island.
5-I am Dominican.
6-A rule of law that enables the popular and plural integration of the Dominican people as it really is.
7. It is forbidden to reward the betrayer and the betrayer, however much he may be grateful for the betrayal and even when there are just reasons to thank the donation.
8-There are words that by the ideas they reveal attract our attention and attract our sympathies towards the beings that pronounce them.
9-The government must be fair and energetic or we will have no country and therefore no freedom or national independence.
10-God must grant me enough strength not to descend to the grave without leaving my country free, independent and triumphant.
11-Thrown from my native soil by that parricida band that beginning by proscribing in perpetuity to the founders of the Republic has concluded by selling to the foreigner the Homeland, whose independence I swore to defend at all trance, I have dragged during twenty years the nomadic life of the outlaw .
12. Every law supposes an authority from which it emanates, and the efficient and radical cause of it is, by inherent right, essential to the people and imprescriptible of its sovereignty.
13-The cross is not the sign of suffering: it is the symbol of redemption.
14 - Any authority not constituted according to the law is illegitimate, and therefore, has no right to govern nor is it obliged to obey it.
15-For the Cross, for the country and its glory, we should march on the field: if the laurel refuses, victory, from the martyrdom of the palm we reach.
16-The Dominican Nation is free and independent and is neither and can never be a member of any power, nor the patrimony of any Power, nor the patrimony of family nor any person of their own, much less strange.
17-The Dominican Nation is the meeting of all Dominicans. The Dominican Nation is free and independent and is not and can never be an integral part of any other Power, nor the family patrimony nor any person of its own, let alone strange.
18-Crime does not prescribe nor is ever unpunished.
19-I have never been so necessary as today to have health, heart and judgment; Today men without judgment and without heart conspire against the health of the country.
20-Work for and for the country, which is to work for our children and for ourselves.
21-The law can not have, nor can it ever have, retroactive effect.
22-In what our freedmen do not agree is on the master they want to impose on the people.
23-All Dominican power is and should always be, limited by law and this by justice, which consists in giving to each one what in right belongs to him.
24-All law not declared irrevocable is derogable and also reformable in whole or in part of it. All laws not clearly and strictly repealed are considered current. The law can not have, nor can it ever have, retroactive effect. No one may be tried except under the law in force and prior to his offense; Nor can it be applied in any case another penalty than that established by the laws and in the form that they prescribe. What the law does not prohibit, no person, whether or not it is an authority, has the right to prohibit it. Law, except for the restrictions of law, must be conservative and protective of the life, liberty, honor and property of the individual. For the derogation of a law, the same formalities and formalities that have been observed for its formation will be kept. The law is the rule to which they must accommodate their acts, so the governed as the rulers..
25-Blessed is the man whom God punishes; Therefore do not despise the correction of the Almighty; Because He is the one who does the sore, and He will sell it; He wounds, and his hands heal.
26-The providentialists are the ones who will save the homeland from hell condemned by the atheists, cosmopolitan and orcopolitans.
27-Be happy, sons of Puerto Plata; And my heart will be satisfied still exonerated of the command that you want that obtains; But be fair, first, if you want to be happy. That is the first duty of man; And be united, and thus you will extinguish the tea of the discord and you will defeat to your enemies, and the country will be free and saved. I will obtain the greatest reward, the only one I aspire to, free, happy, independent and quiet.
28-As desperate as the cause of my country, it will always be the cause of honor and I will always be willing to honor its teaching with my blood.
29-The law is the one that gives the ruler the right to command and imposes on the governed the obligation to obey.
30-It is forbidden to reward the betrayer and the betrayer, however much he likes treachery, and even when there are just reasons to thank the donation.
31-Our country knows in blood and a group of indolent Dominicans make our country a cave of traitors and prepare the cannons again here fight with more strength to remove the invaders.
"Do you have friends?" Prepare them, for the days are near; Try not to go astray, for it will sound the hour to annul forever, the tremendous hour of God's judgment, and the Providential will not be vengeful, but will be just.
33-The Nation is obliged to preserve and protect by means of wise and just laws the personal, civil and individual freedom as well as the property and other legitimate rights of all the individuals that compose it.
34-No one may be tried in civil and criminal cases by any commission, but by the competent Court previously determined.
35 The hour of great treachery sounded and the hour of return to the Fatherland also sounded for me: the Lord paved my ways.
36-If I have returned to my homeland after so many years of absence, it has been to serve her with a life and heart, as I have always been, a motive of love among all true Dominicans and never a stone of scandal, nor an apple of discord.
37. The white, brown, copper, crossed, marching serene, united and daring, the fatherland save us from vile tyrants, and the world show that we are brothers.
38-No power on the earth is unlimited, nor the power of the law. All Dominican power is and should always be limited by law and this by justice, which consists in giving to each one what in right belongs to him.
39-Be just the first, if you want to be happy. That is the first duty of man; And be united, and thus you will extinguish the tea of discord and you will conquer your enemies, and the country will be free and saved. I will obtain the greatest reward, the only one I aspire to, free, happy, independent and quiet.
40-I have not left or will cease to work for our holy cause doing for her, as always, more than I can; And if I have not now done all that I have and have wanted, I want and will always do in your gift, it is because there is always someone who is to break down with my feet what I do with my hands.
41. The predominant religion in the State must always be the Catholic, Apostolic, without prejudice to the freedom of conscience and tolerance of cults and societies not contrary to public morality and evangelical charity.
42-The love of our country made us contract sacred commitments to the generation to come; It is necessary to fulfill them, or to renounce the idea of appearing before the tribunal of history with the honor of free, faithful and persevering men.
43-We do nothing to excite the people and conform to this provision, without making it serve a positive, practical and transcendental end.
44. As long as the traitors are not scorned as they ought, the good and true Dominicans will always be the victims of their machinations.
45 - The little or much that we have been able to do or do even in the gift of a country that is so expensive and so worthy of better luck, will not stop having imitators; And this comfort will accompany us in the tomb.
46. The enemies of the country, therefore our own, are very much in agreement with these ideas: to destroy Nationality even if it is necessary to annihilate the whole nation.
47. We are but ambitious people who have made our people independent out of ambition, and have not had the talent to make our own the wealth of others; While they are honest and virtuous men who have had the ability to do everything, even to call abroad; Shows unequivocally how much loved they will be for the justice with which they have proceeded and will proceed with God and the country and the freedom of the Dominican.
"If the Spaniards have their Spanish monarchy, and France their French monarchy; If even the Haitians have constituted the Haitian Republic, why should the Dominicans be subject, already to France, and to Spain, and to the same Haitians, without thinking of becoming like the others?
Poems
-Romance
It was the dark night,
Of silence and of calm;
It was a night of opprobrium
For the people of Ozama.
Night of waning and breaking
For the beloved country.
To remember it only
The heart would sink.
Eight the miserable were
What an avian hand,
In pursuit of his peers
Towards the foreign beach.
They that to the name of God,
Fatherland and Liberty will rise;
They gave to the town
Independence longed for.
Thrown out of the ground
By whose happiness they will fight;
Outlaws, yes, for traitors
Those of loyalty were left over.
They watched them descend
To the quiet shore,
They were heard saying goodbye,
And his voice off
I picked up the accents
Which roamed the air.
-The purse of the outlaw
How sad, long and tired,
How anguished way,
Points out the divine entity
The unhappy exile.
Go for the lost world
To deserve his piety,
In deep darkness
The sunken horizon.
How sad to see him go
So peaceful and serene,
And know that there in his bosom
Is the mansion of grief.
The floor leave dear
Of our childhood witness,
Without highlighting a friend
Whom I say I say goodbye.
Well when in the storm
You see hope is lost,
Stars in the moving
The ship of friendship.
And walking, walking wandering,
Without finding the way
The sad end that fate
I will bring you here in the world.
And remember and moan
For not looking at his side,
Some adored object
Whom do you remember? say.
Arrive to foreign land
Without any illusory idea,
Without future and without glory,
Without penalty or flag.
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Ungrateful, Fan is your soil,
What to produce has not known
But a traitor fementido.
That it will be fatal to him,
And you, Prado, what do you say?
Inhuman executioner,
Ay!... that by the hand
Seed you look at salt.
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Sing, merry mermaids,
The Ozama's on the shore,
That for him there are no chains
Nor is there any taint for him.
Do not take care of the songs
That aborts my fantasy,
Nor of the black sorrows
That tear my soul.
Sing, sirens, sing,
Sing a song for me,
To announce Freedom
To the ground where I was born.
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It was the dark night,
And silent and calm;
It was a night of opprobrium
For the people of Ozama.
Night of waning and breaking
For the beloved country.
To remember it only
The heart was gone.
Eight the miserable were
What a fiery hand,
In pursuit of his companions
Towards the foreign beach.
They who to the name of God
Fatherland and freedom will rise;
They who gave the town
Independence desired.
Thrown out of the ground
By whose happiness they fought;
Outlaws, yes, for traitors
Those of loyalty were left over.
They watched them descend
To the quiet shore,
They were heard to say goodbye
And his voice off
I picked up the accents
They roamed the air.
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But there is no Benavente
No more Spain:
Your Power Scepter
Cannabis
So strange and vain
What are the Bourbons:
His timbre a Santana,
Bless his traitors.
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I am a Templar, you told me one day
Jacinto a time of the beloved Homeland...
I am a Templar, to repeat it, if you must
There in the sky you look nailed...
I am a Templar, we must repeat
What we honor in the chest...
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Sad is the night, very sad
For the poor sailor
Who in the point
Fierce harasses the storm.
Sad is the night, very sad
For the unfortunate traveler
That on the unknown path
Faded the darkness.
Sad is the night, very sad
For the miserable beggar
What if bread maybe
Curses society.
Sad is the night, very sad
For the good and loyal patrician
To whom the torture awaits
Which raised up iniquity.
While the expatriate
Does not change harsh luck
And even the same raw death
It seems he has forgotten.
See how it looks at the lintel
Of your miserable lodge
Banishing inexorably
The scant light in it;
See how he extends his robe
Of darkness upon entering
And with them increase
Of the soul the deep broken.
That comes after his footprint
Everything that was and exists,
And with his shadow dresses
Of sad color than she.
The heart in pain
See the night coming
The grim front cover
Of insomnia, anguish and rigor.
-Pleading
Yes my eyes, my love
They would finish my pains in good,
Then you will remove it from my temple
The crown that bundles with thistles.
And to my chest you returned calm
That another time enjoyed pleasant,
And today denies him the severe fate
Insensible to the sorrows of the soul.
Do not imitate him, madame, I beg you,
Do not let my bitterness pleasure you
And when I look at my glowing tenderness
Do not take me as he does.
That my love is not in vain
At the feet of the elusive beauty;
Do not tell me oh no! For pity
That you also have me in horror.
For it is such a love of vehemence,
That despite the rigor of my fate,
I have sworn forever to love you...
In spite of your raw inclemency.
49. Politics is not speculation; Is the purest and most worthy Science, after Philosophy, of occupying the noble intelligences.
50. The slave supports his fate although he opprobriates his sad life, but the free prefers death to the opprobrium of such existence.
How sad, long and tired, how distressing a way, the Divine Entity points out the unfortunate exile.
And to my bosom you returned the calm which was pleasant for another time, and today it is denied a severe destiny insensible to the sorrows of the soul.
53. In Santo Domingo there is only one people who wish to be and have proclaimed themselves independent of any foreign power.
54. To establish a free, sovereign and independent Republic of any foreign domination that will be called the Dominican Republic.
55- Living without a homeland is the same as living without honor.
56- Each party only worries about wasting the resources of the state.
Dominicans and Dominicans, it is time for them to awaken from the lethargy that has them asleep.
58. Nothing in life occurs spontaneously.
59. I exhort my country: Let us not lose our sovereignty.
60- Let's fight in mass, let's stop being just a habitable country.
Let us together make a giant leap toward sustained progress toward true Democracy.
Being righteous is the first thing if you want to be happy.
63- Patriots, we must become aware of the situation that our country is experiencing.
64- We must choose officials who really represent our country and fight for the homeland that cost us so hard to recover.
65- We are convinced that between Dominicans and Haitians there is no possible merger.
66- Our society will be called La Trinitaria because it will be composed of groups of three and we will put it under the protection of the Most Holy Trinity.
67- Our motto: God, Fatherland and Freedom.
68. The only way I can meet to meet with you is to make the country independent.
69- Our business will improve and we will not have to repent of having shown us worthy sons of the country.
The sufferings of my brothers were very sensitive to me, but it was more painful to see that the fruit of so many sacrifices, so many sufferings, was the loss of the independence of that country.