There can be no tyrants where there are no slaves.

He who does not know how to look back at where he came from will never get to his destination.

Necessity is the argument of tyrants, it is the creed of slaves.

The government that governs from afar absolutely requires that the truth and the facts reach its knowledge by every possible channel, so that it may weigh and estimate them better, and this need increases when a country like the Philippines is concerned, where the inhabitants speak and complain in a language unknown to the authorities.

One only dies once, and if one does not die well, a good opportunity is lost and will not present itself again.

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!