Porfirio Diaz quotes

“Poor Mexico. So far from God and so close to the United States.”
-- Porfirio Diaz

Source : "The Quote Verifier: Who Said What, Where, and When". p. 387. Book by Ralph Keyes, New York City: St. Martin's Griffin, 2006.

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“Nothing ever happens in Mexico until it happens.”
-- Porfirio Diaz

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“It was better that a little blood should be shed that much blood should be saved. The blood that was shed was bad blood; the blood that was saved was good blood.”
-- Porfirio Diaz

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“What argufies pride and ambition? Soon or late death will take us in tow: Each bullet has got its commission, And when our time's come we must go.”
-- Porfirio Diaz

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“Yeah, I'd be happy to go back to Mexico or Japan to make another film.”

Source : "Interview with Alex Cox and Tod Davies". Interview with Maximilian Le Cain, sensesofcinema.com. January 2003.

“I live in Santa Fe, New Mexico. And I travel a tremendous amount. I'm in New York and California a lot, but then also I like faraway places a lot.”

“Oh, the Irish were building the railroads down through Mexico, through Chihuahua. They finished the railroads when they finished out in the West Coast, and they went down and put the trains into Mexico.”

“The American Southwest seems to be slowly returning to the jurisdiction of Mexico without firing a single shot.”

“I have been under assault by the liberal media in the United States,”

Source : "Aaron Klein Responds to HuffPo — And Admits His Kahanist Sympathies" by Terry Krepel, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 15, 2010.

“If the British are a nation of shopkeepers, Americans are a nation of shoppers.”

“In the United States of America, unfortunately we still live in a bubble of unreality.”

“There is no concept more generally cherished by publishers than that of the Undeserving Poor.”

Source : A. J. Liebling (2005). “Just Enough Liebling: Classic Work by the Legendary New Yorker Writer”, p.22, Macmillan

“No one is so poor that they cannot give, and no one is so rich that they cannot receive.”

“Doom very evenly! Do not doom one doom to the rich; another to the poor! Nor doom one doom to your friend; another to your foe!”

Source : The Doom Book (Legal Code of Ælfred the Great), 893.