Quotes by Evita Peron

• To convince oneself that one has the right to live decently takes time.
• My biggest fear in life is to be forgotten.
• Where there is a worker, there lies a nation.
• One cannot accomplish anything without fanatacism.
• Shadows cannot see themselves in the mirror of the sun.
• Suffer little children and come unto me.
• Time is my greatest enemy.
• I had watched for many years and seen how a few rich families held much of Argentina's wealth and power in their hands. So Peron and the government brought in an eight hour working day , sickness pay and fair wages to give poor workers a fair go .
• When the rich think about the poor, they have poor ideas.
• Keeping books on social aid is capitalistic nonsense. I just use the money for the poor. I can't stop to count it.
• The nation's government has just handed me the bill that grants us our civil rights. I am receiving it before you, certain that I am accepting this on behalf of all Argentinean women, and I can feel my hands tremble with joy as they grasp the laurel proclaiming victory.
• I am my own woman.
• I will come again, and I will be millions.
• In government, one actress is enough.
• Charity separates the rich from the poor; aid raises the needy and sets him on the same level with the rich.
• I am only a simple woman who lives to serve Peron and my people.
• I am only a sparrow amongst a great flock of sparrows.
• I demanded more rights for women because I know what women had to put up with.
• I know that, like every woman of the people, I have more strength than I appear to have.
• I will return and I will be a million.
• If I have to apply five turns to the screw each day for the happiness of Argentina, I will do it.
• Answer violence with violence. If one of us falls today, five of them must fall tomorrow.