In this decisive hour of our national history, union means life and division means death.

I do not wish a foreign army to spill the blood of my people.

The time has come to put an end to the fratricidal war and to recover at last peace and accord.

If your government had given me a thousandth of the sum it spent to depose me, I could have won that war.

Henceforth, we shall be happy to be a free citizen in an independent country.

As for us, during twenty years' reign, we have known much bitterness.