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

My countrymen, I have given proofs that I am one most anxious for liberties for our country, and I am still desirous of them. But I place as a prior condition the education of the people, that by means of instruction and industry our country may have an individuality of its own and make itself worthy of these liberties.

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

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

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

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!