The world laughs at another man's pain.

For myself I think that one wrong does not right the other, and forgiveness cannot be won with useless tears or alms to the Church.

Necessity is the most powerful divinity the world knows – it is the result of physical forces set in operation by ethical forces.

Filipinos don't realize that victory is the child of struggle, that joy blossoms from suffering, and redemption is a product of sacrifice.

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.

Virtue lies in the middle ground.

Ignorance is servitude, because as a man thinks, so he is; a man who does not think for himself and allows himself to be guided by the thought of another is like the beast led by a halter.