ANTONIO LOPEZ DE SANTA ANNA

In a hundred years to come my people will not be fit for liberty. They do not know what it is….Despotism is the proper government for them.

It is very true that I threw up my cap for liberty with great ardor, and perfect sincerity, but very soon found the folly of it. A hundred years to come my people will not be fit for liberty. They do not know what it is, unenlightened as they are, and under the influence of a Catholic clergy, a despotism is the proper government for them, but there is no reason why it should not be a wise and virtuous one.

I have agreed with General Houston for an armistice until matters can be so regulated that the war will cease forever.

I beheld absolutism in all its power; and I felt encouraged to enter into a struggle against Augustin I.

I beheld absolutism in all its power; and I felt encouraged to enter into a struggle against Augustin I.

In a hundred years to come my people will not be fit for liberty. They do not know what it is….Despotism is the proper government for them.

I have agreed with General Houston for an armistice until matters can be so regulated that the war will cease forever.

It is very true that I threw up my cap for liberty with great ardor, and perfect sincerity, but very soon found the folly of it. A hundred years to come my people will not be fit for liberty. They do not know what it is, unenlightened as they are, and under the influence of a Catholic clergy, a despotism is the proper government for them, but there is no reason why it should not be a wise and virtuous one.