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

There now exists a factor which was formerly lacking - the spirit of the nation has been aroused, and a common misfortune, a common debasement, has united all the inhabitants of the Islands.

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

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!