"What threatens democracy is hunger, it is misery, it is the disease of those who have no resources to face it. These are the evils that can threaten democracy, but never the people in the public square in the use of their legitimate and democratic rights."

“...the major objective of Brazilian society is the strengthening of peace. We believe that the ideological conflict between West and East cannot and should not be solved militarily, because if in a nuclear war we saved our lives, we would not be able to save, whether we won or were won, our reason for living.”

“It is my duty to state in a solemn declaration to History that I have never been insinuated with any movement or tendency to hurt the law or the institutions. I have always heard categorical statements from the President that he would be an uncompromising defender of legality and democratic institutions. I could never defend a government committed to communism.”

“The national memory is treated as garbage.”

“It is regrettable that still large parts of the population that have had access to higher education remain insensitive to the national reality.”

“The government recognizes the mistakes of the past and apologizes to a man who defended the nation and its people whom we could never have forgiven.”

“I won't trade one Brazilian worker for a hundred of these tidy little grandfins.”