The famous republics of antiquity never gave examples of more unshaken courage, more haughty spirits, or more intractable love of independence than were hidden in former times among the wild forests of the New World.
Antzinako errepublikarik ospetsuenek sekula ez zuten ausardia irmoagorik, arima harroagorik eta independentziaren zaletasun setatiagorik miretsi izan, Mundu Berriko oihan basatiek ezkutatzen zutena baino.