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.
There can be no tyrants where there are no slaves.
He who does not love his own language is worse than an animal and smelly fish.
Routine is a declivity down which many governments slide, and routine says that freedom of the press is dangerous.
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?
While a people preserves its language; it preserves the marks of liberty.
