I don't regret that I came. I wanted to come and see the others' opinions. I don't know what my friends' reaction will be back home. You can't know.

The Israeli girls are friendly with me; I don't feel like what it's like in Palestine. Maybe because here everyone has the feeling that we are going to do something to improve the situation.

I know people that have died. We live in Jerusalem. We live safely. But we hear the news and everything, and sometimes we don't go to school because of the situation.

Three Spaniards, four opinions

So long as you are a slave to the opinions of the many you have not yet approached freedom or tasted its nectar… But I do not mean by this that we ought to be shameless before all men and to do what we ought not; but all that we refrain from and all that we do, let us not do or refrain from merely because it seems to the multitude somehow honorable or base, but because it is forbidden by reason and the god within us.

Hence from all we have hitherto said, it is clear beloved Catholics that we cannot approve the opinions which some (Protestants, Jews, and other heretics) comprise under the head of Americanism (freedom)