Justice is the foremost virtue of the civilizing races. It subdues the barbarous nations, while injustice arouses the weakest.

The Philippine races, like all the Malays, do not succumb before the foreigner, like the Australians, the Polynesians and the Indians of the New World.

While a people preserves its language; it preserves the marks of liberty.

Wealth brings with it refinement, the spirit of conservation, while poverty inspires adventurous ideas, the desire to change things, and has little care for life.

Justice is my being allowed to do whatever I like. Injustice is whatever prevents my doing so.

Rigid justice is the greatest injustice.