Men will not forget that Pancho Villa was loyal to the cause of the people.

Doroteo Arango Arámbula (5 June 1878 – 20 July 1923), better known as Francisco or "Pancho" Villa, was a Mexican Revolutionary general.

Quotes

• Men will not forget that Pancho Villa was loyal to the cause of the people.
  • As quoted in Pancho Villa: Rebel of the Mexican Revolution (2006) by Mary Englar
• The country must be governed by someone who really loves his people and his land, who shares wealth and progress. I have all that, only that I am ignorant. "
• I, Pancho Villa, was a loyal man that destiny brought the world to fight for the good of the poor and that I will never betray nor forget my duty."
• Companions of arms and lords. Do not believe that the one who is going to speak to them is a philosopher, I am a man of people, but you will understand that these men when they speak, speak with the heart.
• I am not an educated man. I never had an opportunity to learn anything except how to fight..

Quotes about Villa

• The brutality and uncouthness of many of the revolutionary leaders has not prevented them from becoming popular myths. Villa still gallops through the north, in songs and ballads; Zapata dies at every popular fair. … It is the Revolution, the magical word, the word that is going to change everything, that is going to bring us immense delight and a quick death.
  • Octavio Paz, as quoted in Staging Politics in Mexico: The Road to Neoliberalism (2004) by Stuart Alexander Day, p. 38

• Tengo el deber de informarle que Pancho Villa se encuentra en todas partes y en ninguna a la vez.
  • I have the duty to inform you that Pancho Villa is everywhere and nowhere at the same time.
  • A report from an officer in Venustiano Carranza's army, mentioned in the book ¡Vamonos con Pancho Villa! (2007) by Rafael Muñoz.

• Hated by thousands and loved by millions.
  • Richard Grant, as quoted in Bandit Roads: Into the Lawless Heart of Mexico, (2009)

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