Tancredo de Almeida Neves

“Amnesty is not forgetting. It is forgiveness.”

“The people are the masters of the truth.”

“The task is one of national reconstruction.”

“As long as there is in this country a single man without work, without bread, without a roof, and without letters, all prosperity will be false.”

“One cannot be afraid to be happy.”

“Politics is like a cloud. You look and it's one way. You look again and it has already changed.”

“The first commitment of Minas is with freedom.”

“There is no room for discouragement.”

“Conciliation is the art of governing.”

“The democratic transition is a process, not an act.”

“Let's not disperse.”

“The Fatherland demands a gesture of greatness from us.”

“Hope is the last right of man.”

“I am a moderate, but I am not a coward.”

“The Nation has grown tired of deceptions, frustrated in its longings.”