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

- Bao ?Ai

I would prefer to be a citizen of an independent country rather than Emperor of an enslaved one.

- Bao ?Ai

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

- Bao ?Ai

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

- Bao ?Ai

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

- Bao ?Ai

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

- Bao ?Ai

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

- Bao ?Ai