The Filipino embraces civilization and lives and thrives in every clime, in contact with every people.

The divine flame of thought is inextinguishable in the Filipino people, and somehow or other it will shine forth and compel recognition. It is impossible to brutalize the inhabitants of the Philippines!

No one ceases to be a man, no one forfeits his rights to civilization merely by being more or less uncultured, and since the Filipino is regarded as a fit citizen when he is asked to pay taxes or shed his blood to defend the fatherland, why must this fitness be denied him when the question arises of granting him some right?

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

Orientals, and the Malays in particular, are a sensitive people: delicacy of sentiment is predominant with them.

The people no longer has confidence in its former protectors, now its exploiters and executioners. The masks have fallen.