No pasarán! (19 July 1936)

• Workers, anti-fascists, and labouring people!
  Rise as one man! Prepare to defend the Republic, national freedom and the democratic liberties won by the people!
  Everybody now knows from the communications of the government and of the People's Front how serious the situation is. The workers, together with the troops which have remained loyal to the Republic, are manfully and enthusiastically carrying on the struggle in Morocco and the Canary Islands.
  Under the slogan, "Fascism shall not pass, the October butchers shall not pass!" communists, socialists, anarchists and republicans, soldiers and all the forces loyal to the will of the people, are routing the traitorous rebels, who have trampled in the mud and betrayed their vaunted military honour.
  The whole country is shocked by the actions of these villains. They want with fire and sword to turn democratic Spain, the Spain of the people, into a hell of terrorism and torture. But they shall not pass! (No pasarán)
  • Radio broadcast, Madrid, 19 July 1936. Translation printed in The Voice of Spain (Calcutta: Eagle Publishers, 1945), p. 1. The leader of the Nationalist forces, Generalísimo Francisco Franco, upon capturing Madrid, is said to have remarked, "We have passed" (Hemos pasado)

Farewell to the International Brigades (15 November 1938)

• They gave up everything, their homes, their country, home and fortune — fathers, mothers, wives, brothers, sisters and children, and they came and told us: "We are here, your cause, Spain's cause, is ours. It is the cause of all advanced and progressive mankind." Today they are going away. Many of them thousands of them, are staying here with the Spanish earth for their shroud, and all Spaniards remember them with the deepest feeling.
  • Referring to the foreign volunteers who joined the Spanish Republican forces' International Brigades in the Spanish Civil War, in a speech in Barcelona on 15 November 1938, as the Brigades were being disbanded by Republican President Manuel Azana. As quoted by Hugh Thomas in The Spanish Civil War (1961), p. 558

• Comrades of the International Brigades! Political reasons, reasons of State, the welfare of that same cause for which you offered your blood with boundless generosity, are sending you back, some of you to your own countries and others to forced exile. You can go proudly. You are history. You are legend. You are the heroic example of democracy's solidarity and universality. We shall not forget you, and when the olive tree of peace puts forth its leaves again, mingled with the laurels of the Spanish Republic's victory- come back!
  • From the above speech in Barcelona on 15 November 1938, as quoted by Hugh Thomas in The Spanish Civil War (1961), p. 558