It is probable that England will look favorably upon the independence of the Philippines, for it will open their ports to her and afford greater freedom to her commerce.
The divine flame of thought is inextinguishable in the Filipino people, and somehow or other it will shine forth and compel recognition. It is impossible to brutalize the inhabitants of the Philippines!
The people no longer has confidence in its former protectors, now its exploiters and executioners. The masks have fallen.
To doubt God is to doubt one's own conscience, and in consequence, it would be to doubt everything; and then what is life for?
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.
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.
Since it is necessary to grant six million Filipinos their rights, so that they may be in fact Spaniards, let the government grant these rights freely and spontaneously, without damaging reservations, without irritating mistrust.
Orientals, and the Malays in particular, are a sensitive people: delicacy of sentiment is predominant with them.
Necessity is the most powerful divinity the world knows, and necessity is the resultant of physical forces set in operation by ethical forces.
The Filipino embraces civilization and lives and thrives in every clime, in contact with every people.
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!
Justice is the foremost virtue of the civilizing races. It subdues the barbarous nations, while injustice arouses the weakest.
One only dies once, and if one does not die well, a good opportunity is lost and will not present itself again.
If the Philippines must remain under the control of Spain, they will necessarily have to be transformed in a political sense, for the course of their history and the needs of their inhabitants so require.
While a people preserves its language; it preserves the marks of liberty.
Spain, must we some day tell Filipinas that thou hast no ear for her woes and that if she wishes to be saved she must redeem herself?
Routine is a declivity down which many governments slide, and routine says that freedom of the press is dangerous.
He who does not love his own language is worse than an animal and smelly fish.
There can be no tyrants where there are no slaves.