In Mexico the gods ruled, the priests interpreted and interposed, and the people obeyed.In Spain, the priests ruled, the king interpreted and interposed, and the gods obeyed. A nuance in an ideological difference is a wide chasm.

-Condon, Richard
A  Talent for Loving, bk.1, ch.6.

Poor Mexico, so far from God and so closetothe United States.

-Diaz, Porfirio
  Attributed, at the beginning of the  American^Mexican War (1846^8). English songwriter, who wrote his first operetta (TheShepherd's Artifice,  performed  at  Covent  Garden 1762)  as  a  boy.  He  wrote nearly100 sea songs and 70 dramatic pieces.