Why independence? If the slaves of today will be the tyrants of tomorrow.
Climate affects bipeds in the same way it does quadrupeds.
Dying people don't need medicine, the ones who remain do.
I honor the father in his son, not the son in his father. Each one receives a reward or punishment for his deeds, but not for the acts of others.
Travel is a caprice in childhood, a passion in youth, a necessity in manhood, and an elegy in old age.
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.