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.

I die without seeing dawn's light shining on my country... You, who will see it, welcome it for me...don't forget those who fell during the nighttime.

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 is multiplied by the number of languages he possesses and speaks.

Who does not love his own tongue is far worse than a brute or stinking fish.

Law has no skin, reason has no nostrils.

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