The youth is the hope of our future. Read Summary
He who does not love his own language is worse than an animal and smelly fish. Read Summary
Justice is the foremost virtue of the civilizing races. It subdues the barbarous nations, while injustice arouses the weakest. Read Summary
History does not record in its annals any lasting domination exercised by one people over another, of different race, of diverse usages and customs, of opposite and divergent ideals. One of the two had to yield and succumb. Read Summary
We young Filipinos are trying to make over a nation and must not halt in our march, but from time to time turn our gaze upon our elders. We shall wish to read in their countenances approval of our actions. Read Summary
No one ceases to be a man, no one forfeits his rights to civilization merely by being more or less uncultured, and since the Filipino is regarded as a fit citizen when he is asked to pay taxes or shed his blood to defend the fatherland, why must this fitness be denied him when the question arises of granting him some right? Read Summary
If the Philippines secure their independence after heroic and stubborn conflicts, they can rest assured that neither England, nor Germany, nor France, and still less Holland, will dare to take up what Spain has been unable to hold. Read Summary
My mother is not a woman of ordinary culture. She knows literature and speaks Spanish better than I do. She even corrected my poems and gave me advice when I was studying rhetoric. Read Summary
I may be what my enemies desire me to be, yet never an accusation are they able to hurl against me which makes me blush or lower my forehead; and I hope that God will be merciful enough with me, to prevent me from committing one of those faults which would involve my family. Read Summary
The Philippine races, like all the Malays, do not succumb before the foreigner, like the Australians, the Polynesians and the Indians of the New World. Read Summary
Perhaps the great American Republic, whose interests lie in the Pacific and who has no hand in the spoliation of Africa, may someday dream of foreign possession. Read Summary
Experience has everywhere shown us, and especially in the Philippines, that the classes which are better off have always been addicted to peace and order because they live comparatively better and may be the losers in civil disturbances. Read Summary
Of what use are all the codes in the world, if by means of confidential reports, if for trifling reasons, if through anonymous traitors any honest citizen may be exiled or banished without a hearing, without a trial? Read Summary
He who does not know how to look back at where he came from will never get to his destination. Read Summary
One only dies once, and if one does not die well, a good opportunity is lost and will not present itself again. Read Summary
There can be no tyrants where there are no slaves. Read Summary
The Filipino embraces civilization and lives and thrives in every clime, in contact with every people. Read Summary
The people no longer has confidence in its former protectors, now its exploiters and executioners. The masks have fallen. Read Summary
When there is in nature no fixed condition, how much less must there be in the life of a people, beings endowed with mobility and movement! Read Summary
Wealth brings with it refinement, the spirit of conservation, while poverty inspires adventurous ideas, the desire to change things, and has little care for life. Read Summary