If I had to do it all over again and I had any idea something like this would happen, I wouldn't do it.

If I thought about it, I never would have done it, I guess I would have let it slide.

Right then, with the shore so close, I understood that I would not do what I should do. I would not swim away from my hometown and my country and my life. I would not be brave.

If I had known it was harmless
I would have killed it myself.

Maybe if they didn't know it beforehand, they wouldn't find out I'd ever been guilty of trying to think for myself.

I would never have drawn my sword in the cause of America, if I could have conceived that thereby I was founding a land of slavery.

Maybe if I'd been braver in that moment, I would have cried.

This wouldn't be so bad, I told myself. But secretly, I knew that I was quite wrong.

Preferiría no hacerlo

If I had known they were going to do this, I would have become a shoemaker.

I never would have agreed to the formulation of the Central Intelligence Agency back in forty-seven, if I had known it would become the American Gestapo.

When I went there, I did not think to have done this. But perceiving the spirit of God so strong upon me, I would not consult flesh and blood.

I regret everything. But if I had done things differently, it would never have been as compelling.

I have to say it: I didn't have the courage.