Juan Donoso Cortes Quotes
There is no man, let him be aware of it or not, who is not a combatant in this hot contest; no one who does not take an active part in the responsibility of the defeat or victory. The prisoner in his chains and the king on his throne, the poor and the rich, the healthy and the infirm, the wise and the ignorant, the captive and the free, the old man and the child, the civilized and the savage, share equally in the combat. Every word that is pronounced, is either inspired by God or by the world, and necessarily proclaims, implicitly or explicitly, but always clearly, the glory of the one or the triumph of the other. In this singular warfare we all fight through forced enlistment; here the system of substitutes or volunteers finds no place. In it is unknown the exception of sex or age; here no attention is paid to him who says, I am the son of a poor widow; nor to the mother of the paralytic, nor to the wife of the cripple. In this warfare all men born of woman are soldiers.
Marqués de Valdegamas. He was a descendant of the conquistador, Hernando Cortez.
Juan Donoso Cortes, 1809–1853, Spanish Political Writer, Ambassador to France, Essays on Catholicism, Liberalism, and Socialism, 1879
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Juan Donoso Cortés, marqués de Valdegamas was a Spanish author, conservative, Catholic political theorist and diplomat.
