the American will overthrow me by phone if he wants to. - João Goulart

I won't trade one Brazilian worker for a hundred of these tidy little grandfins.

It is, therefore, understandable that it deeply displeases the conscience of the Brazilian people any form of intervention in an American State, inspired by the allegation of incompatibility with its political regime, to impose on it the practice of the representative system by external coercive means, which take away its democratic character and validity.

Agrarian reform is not the whim of a government or the program of a party. It is the product of the pressing need of all the peoples of the world...