I wish to show those who deny us Patriotism that we know how to die for our country and convictions.

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.

Man works for an object. Remove that object and you reduce him into inaction.

The people do not complain because they have no voice; do not move because they are lethargic, and you say that they do not suffer because you have not seen their hearts bleed.

I go where there are no slaves, hangmen or oppressors; where faith does not kill; where the one who reigns is God.

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!

Travel is a caprice in childhood, a passion in youth, a necessity in manhood, and an elegy in old age.